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2 Barry Hall Taste Heaven Ministries Corvallis, Or. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Taste Heaven Ministries. It is illegal to make copies without payment to, or written permission from, the author. Please honor the copyright on this book. Site licences are available for ministries and churches. Barry for information: barry@tasteheavennow.net Almost all scriptures are taken from the updated NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE, Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1987, 1988, The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Other scriptures are from the New International Version or Amplified Bible as noted. All emphasis mine.

3 You don t have to quench your thirsty desire for God with earthly things and relationships that are inadequate to supply what you long for most. You can repent of other gods and enjoy... A Taste of Heaven...Now! The series. Part Three: Heart-training! A Guide for Directing your Heart toward God in Accordance with His Grace By Barry Hall Taste Heaven Ministries Mission Statement: To Provide Understanding and Tools for a Reformation in Receiving the Presence of God into, onto, and around us by Faith!

4 ...he who takes refuge in Me will inherit the land and will possess My holy mountain. And it will be said, Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstacle out of the way of My people. For thus says the high and exalted One who lives forever, whose name is Holy, I dwell on a high and holy place, and also with the contrite and lowly of spirit in order to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. (Isa. 57:13-15)

5 Contents and Trouble-Shooting guide Introduction Introduction for Heart-Training 7 Core Classes for Your Heart Core Classes Group One: Believing and Enjoying the Truth About God 20 Trusting Salvation for the Acceptance of God 25 Changing Mis-beliefs About God (Elective that if needed goes here) 29 Core Classes Group Two: How NOT to Change! Ineffective and Sinful Ways of Trying to Change 32 Trusting the Punishment of Christ 33 Turning from Bitterness and Unforgiveness 37 Receiving Forgiveness and Cleansing 39 Core Classes Group Three: Truth about us: Self-Esteem and Our Human Glory 45 Believing God as Our Righteousness, Goodness, and Perfection 48 Changing From Performance to Grace 52 Core Classes Group Four: Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 58 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Reassurance 70 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Protection 78 Core Classes Group Five: God as Our Adequacy and Strength and No Fear 88 Confidence to Drink from God, Rather than Despair or Hopelessness 96 Inner Healing: Letting God Give You a New Heart 103 Believing and Enjoying the Love of God 106 Core Classes Group Six: Redefining Success: Being to the praise of God s Glory, not my own 109 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Thrill and Pleasure 117 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Reason to Boast 122 Turning from Demonic Pressure to Avoid or Believe Lies About God 125 Heart-training Condensed (Uses diagrams!) 128 Core Classes Group Seven: I CAN Stand Before the Lord and Receive 136 Being to the Praise of His Glory 146 Healing and the Miraculous 150

6 Electives for Your Heart Electives Group One: Encouragement and Instruction about Growing and Change Benefits of Changing our Mind and Directing our Heart Toward God 164 Believing I CAN Change and How to Do It 166 God Speaks: Listening and Hearing God Speak to You 174 God Listens: Prayer is Talking to God 179 God is Involved: The Calling and Will of God 180 Turning from Fear of Being Hurt by God 181 Electives Group Two: Removing Obstacles Coming From Outside Influences Turning from Pressure from People to Avoid God 184 Turning from Pressure from Religious People to Hold Back 187 Electives Group Three: Turning Away from Distractions and Specific Pursuits Ministry as Idolatry 191 Changing from Works to Grace (for Women) 197 Turning Away from Self-Sabotage 208 Turning Away from Money and Material Things 210 Turning Away from Drug and Alcohol Abuse 212 Turning Away from Food as Idolatry 215 Turning Away from Bulimia 219 Turning Away from Anorexia 225 Turning Away from Self-Mutilation, Cutting, Burning 233 Turning Away from Depression (as a habit or addiction) 239 Turning Away from Sexual Pursuits 242 Turning Away from Anger as Idolatry 251 Turning Away from Violence 253 Electives Group Four: Removing Obstacles that Decrease Motivation Turning Away from Spiritual Pride (about God s presence) 256 No Vacations from God 257 Appendix Appendix A: Process Steps for Doing what You Learn 260 Appendix B: Being to the Praise of His Glory Explained 261 Appendix C: Exercises for the Soul 263 NOTE: The Exercises for the Soul are almost equal in importance to heart-training itself. Later in the Heart-training, more time should be in these exercises than the Heart-training.

7 Introduction Heart-training Introduction The Bible says that...the heart of man reflects man (Pro. 27:19). And, They always go astray in their heart... (Heb. 3:10). So the best focus for Christian growth, must always be our heart. Great spiritual growth requires an ongoing re-alignment of our heart-level thinking, with truth in the Bible. The beliefs, loves, and fears of our heart must all be re-aligned. This book is a tool for people who want to do just that. Heart-training is a practical and effective method of getting truth into our heart and keeping it there. Hearttraining is a joyous and guilt free kind of repentance, aimed specifically at helping people to draw near and receive God s presence with childlike freedom and faith. This book is both the how to do it and the what to do. But your heart-training shouldn t ever stop. People need freedom in their relationship with God. Freedom to love Him without being bound to earthly things. Freedom to worship. Freedom to draw near to God and also to let Him draw near to them (Jam 4:8). These are things that will always need improvement. And Jesus explained how to do that when He said,...you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free (Joh 8:32). But the truth that sets us free is much more than just what we know in our head. Freeing truth is that which our heart is fully convinced about. I learned in the workplace about continual process improvement. The Christian life is like that. Relationship with God is not a goal to achieve. It is a process, something we do over and over again. And if we think of our relationship with God as a process, then our efforts to improve become much more effective. Thinking of it this way also means that we never fully arrive at the goal because the goal is to always improve. Hearttraining gives people a powerful way to be engaged in the process of continual improvement. I wanted to remember these next 2 sentences so I taped them to walls in our home. The first is that Great spiritual success and fulfilment of your calling are NOT possible without heart-training faithfully. The second sentence is continues by saying, And, because people are just people, heart-training is necessary for very many others also. More spiritual success = more heart-training. Those words are helpful because they remind me that I am not alone. They also remind me that I will always need to continue using this tool faithfully. And even though I have used some of these pages more than a thousand times, I continue to use this tool because it works far better than anything I have found. Next, you need to know the kinds of truth that this book aims to help you move from your head to your heart. A Reformation of Faith for the Presence of God Long ago, there was a reformation in the church about salvation by faith. It was a biblical realignment in thinking about receiving Christ into us for salvation. It was primarily good news about eternity future. This book is an attempt to provide practical understanding and tools for fueling a second reformation. Like the first, this also represents a major biblical realignment in thinking. But here is the difference. This reformation is about receiving God s presence onto and around us by faith AFTER salvation. This change in thinking isn t about the future. It is primarily good news for the present. Consider this. If we were to receive the presence of God by faith in His grace, it could easily be just as history changing as the first reformation.

8 Introduction 8 The truth is that we can experience the presence of God far more intensely and far more regularly than most think is realistic. And do this, we MUST. But getting there, requires that we look honestly at idolatry in our heart. We must also consider God s plan for HOW He intends to be a better God to us than the other gods of this world. God wants to be God to us by His presence in, on, AND around us becoming our refuge, strength, and glory our entire basis for confidence and security. So, God purposely designed us with a driving NEED to experience Him in the very way that He wants to be God to us. But most Christians today are afraid of this kind of closeness and don t know how to make it work. So, driven by our unmet need, we have unknowingly become addicted to earthly glory. And idolatry in our heart is preventing God from being God to us as He desires. And let s face the truth. There are MANY obstacles that prevent us from experiencing God as we know we should. Human weakness and fears are great. Therefore, we must also think biblically, creatively, and we MUST be practical about how we can change, and then how we can maintain that change. It all adds up to this: Christians need to get back to basics and then we need to apply those basics to go beyond where we have ever been. Heart-training is a tool for helping people to do just that. I Wrote this Book For People... I believe that many will read this book as a devotional because they will find themselves greatly encouraged and uplifted by the words they read here. But I did not write this book for them. I wrote this book for people who believe that very little will change unless we show the world the love of God and His kingdom, at least as clearly as it was during the time of Christ. These are people who want the presence of God and His kingdom close to them, far more than they want anything else (or, at least they want to want it). Yes, there will be many who experience healing by applying these things. But healing, and even miracles won t slow them down because they know that the moment they let themselves be satisfied with anything other than God Himself, their forward progress stops completely. I wrote this book for those who decide they will use this tool with determination and purpose. They will use it to go far beyond just being encouraged and uplifted by this book. They will use it to strip away their earthly dependancies, pride, and disbelief. And they will keep using it until faith and delight toward God grow so strong that they find spiritual understanding for drawing near and entering before the Lord. This book is for the people who will use the heart-training to turn their neediness toward God until they find freedom to receive and to make the presence of God their reason for courage, confidence, and security. They will use it to teach themselves to greatly love and enjoy the closeness of God as their I AM. And, they will continue using the heart-training because they will have found it to be an effective tool for experiencing the kingdom of God and even heaven itself, all around them here. Their worship will be boastful and strong, because the heart-training will help them to experience God as the God who draws near and who is a far better God to them than the other gods of this world. So, be encouraged and blessed by using this book! But if you are one who wants to use this tool to go beyond those things, then this introduction and the background teachings in this book will be important as a foundation for helping you to do that.

9 Introduction 9 Changing How We Think in Our Heart Christian growth works best when it is based on a continual process of true Biblical repentance. Technically speaking, repentance means to change our mind. But in the context of the Bible, true repentance changes the thinking patterns of our heart. It also means we have to change the beliefs, loves, and fears in our heart so that we think in ways that are consistent with the kingdom of God. The beliefs, loves, and the fears of our heart must change or our behavior will remain unaffected. And, we CAN change the thinking patterns in our heart, by speaking truth out loud, listening to what we are saying, and by letting the truth sink down deep into our heart:...faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. (Rom. 10:17)....confess with your mouth...and believe in your heart... (Rom 10:9). for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness... (Rom 10:10). God designed us as needy people. We need security, a sense of being significant, and a basis for having courage. A lifestyle of repentance is one of continually training our heart to turn from trying to meet these needs by feeding ourselves with earthly glory sources. And at the same time, also training our heart to find freedom to draw near to God, let Him draw near to us, and enjoy His presence with us as the basis for meeting these needs. By this process, we trade earthly glory for the glorious presence of God. By this process God is becoming our one and only God as He desires. Heart-training involves teaching our heart to believe that the payback for repentance is so great that turning our dependance away from earthly glory and sin is a price well worth paying;...repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:19). So repentance is more than stopping the bad behaviors! Repentance includes changing the way we think about God s grace and our being able to enter before God and love Him more fully. If repentance hasn t taken us to deeper levels of experiencing God, it isn t really complete yet. Even so, please note that the repentance that God desires is without regret:...the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret... (2 Cor. 7:10). So, God wants us to feel sorrow for sin but it is NOT God s will for us to repent by how bad we make ourselves feel for sin. The focus for repentance is our heart, not our outer behavior. Behavior is the result, not the cause:...the heart of man reflects man. (Pro. 27:19). They always go astray in their heart... (Heb. 3:10)....from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the...evil things... (Mark 7:21-23). So, read the statements on the heart-training pages out loud and listen to what you are saying. At each (pause) stop and rest into letting your heart believe and love the truth. Don t worry about having to do everything perfectly, only believe to the extent that you are able at the moment. Then, move on to the next statement. Just be sure to use the (pause) for brief moment to think about what you just said, and to allow your heart to hear, believe, and to love the truth of it. Please also note that while there are major sections in the heart-training called levels, don t make the mistake of moving from one level to the next and leaving the earlier ones behind. All of it works together. Distractions and How I Keep Doing These Things Deep down I believe that behavior flows from the heart and our heart follows what we treasure. I also believe that if we change what we treasure, then our behavior will follow that, and change. Even so, I can fill my life with distractions just as well as the next guy. I mean if you were to peak into my life, it would often seem like I am treasuring anything and everything except God. You might even see that sometimes my distractions appear to be carefully crafted in order to dull my desire to move forward.

10 Introduction 10 Then again, there are also times when I suddenly wake up enough to realize that continuing on this path will easily waste the entire rest of my life. And that makes me afraid, because when I am old and looking back, I don t want to feel pain from a meaningless and wasted life. So, whatever I do for a job, or where I live, or whatever things are on that level, I want the underlying foundation of my life to be focused on the most meaningful and significant things possible. When I wake up enough to think and feel those things, at that point, it is either continue on living in hopelessness and a quiet kind of despair, or I have to look for a reason to have hope so that I can move forward again. For me, I always seem to come back to the same thing because deep down in my heart I deeply BELIEVE that behavior flows from our heart and our heart follows what we treasure. So, if I change what I treasure, then my behavior will change. And, I will be able to pursue the Lord. And, I won t be so bogged down with earthly distractions. For me, those become windows of time where I might appear to be a disciplined person. Because, for as long as the distractions stay away, I try real hard to focus my effort in the best way I know is possible. What do I do? I teach my heart what to believe about earthly things and about God. I teach my heart by giving myself reasons to love God, reasons to NOT be afraid, and reasons to treasure the closeness of the Lord. Sure distractions come back. But during those times when I am seeing things clearly, I try to run with it as hard as I can. So even though changing my behavior is the goal, I focus almost totally on changing what I treasure. And I do that by teaching my heart what to believe, what to love, and what NOT to be afraid of. By doing this, I am renewing my mind. I am renewing the mind of my heart. So, is discipline the reason I am able to do these things? NO WAY! The truth is that it is avoidance of pain. I don t want to waste my life, and I want to live it for absolutely the most significant things possible. The Role of Discipline and Decisions Some people think that being a Christian is just about making the right choices. If that is true then the Christian life has more to do with discipline than the loves, beliefs, and fears in our heart. And, I don t believe it! Have you ever fallen to temptation so fast that afterward you wondered what happened? I have. In times like those I don t believe that our conscious mind had time to rationally choose what we would do. Discipline is important, but I think that most of us are more reactive than disciplined. If growth in the Christian life is mainly about discipline, how is it that the gospel is for weak and sinful people? Our relationship with God is primarily a thing of the heart and not purely from discipline. Don t get me wrong. Sin is sin and we need to make the right choices. But sin is also a desperate attempt to fill our neediness apart from God. In those cases you may not even be aware that a choice was made. It is vital that we make the right choices but it works better when those choices flow out of faith and love toward God. Discipline is good. But purity is deeper than surface behaviors. Disciples are disciplined ones. But disciples are those whose discipline is a response to their love and faith in God.

11 Introduction 11 You can try as hard as you want to stop every time, and think about making the right choices. But eventually, your heart is going to take over and you will still do the wrong thing. It is what is in our heart that has to improve! So, living the Christian life can t be boiled down to making right choices. It can t be boiled down like that because decisions and choices do little to change the heart that produces the behavior. Our behavior has to improve! But the focus of our effort must be to improve the beliefs, decrease the fears, and to increase the love in our heart. Two times the Bible talks about...the obedience of faith... (Rom. 1:5 and Rom. 16:26). To me that says that obedience comes from faith not from duty or from pure discipline. Disciplining yourself to just make the right choices isn t the answer. Can you tell I am frustrated here? I have had enough of accountability groups that focus on what people do or don t do. Why not help each other to go after the root of the problem instead of just focusing on behavioral symptoms? Why not use our small groups for helping one another to change the way we think in our heart. When we Christians train our heart to think according to the kingdom of God, the whole world will see a dramatic result. The Bible tells us where to focus when it says,...applying all diligence, in your faith... (2 Pet. 1:5). And,...building yourselves up on your most holy faith (Jude 1:20). Why not focus our effort where it counts? The solution for fear is to believe and to love (John 14:1; 1 John 4:18). The Bible is clear when it says that...everyone who believes is freed from all things (Acts 13:39). The choices we make don t start with choices. The choices we make are the result of what we believe in our heart, what we are afraid of, what we love. When you change those things good choices and good behavior are the result. So, what is the answer for weak and hurting people who don t have any discipline? I think we have to make repentance fun! When teaching your heart what to believe and love, use delight in your tone of voice. Talk to yourself! King David did that a lot! Thrill yourself into loving God. Your heart will respond and right behavior will follow. Doing these things is the kind of repentance that makes the gospel work for those of us who are weak and who sometimes act before WE think. So don t wait until after you sin. Change the beliefs and loves of your heart, before you have the next choice to make where you might do something wrong. It works best to change the way your heart thinks for preventative reasons rather than something you do as a reaction. This way, the repentance that actually changes your patterns of thinking, also changes your outward behavior because then your behavior becomes a simple response to changes in what your heart is believing and loving.

12 Introduction 12 If your repentance is only a strong decision that you make with your head, it won t ever work well enough. Far more than a simple decision, when you change the thinking patterns in your heart, your want to changes. And that IS true biblical repentance because it makes you want to do the right thing before you are even presented with the choice to do wrong. The practical result is that it seems like you have already made the right choice before the circumstance arrives. Are you a person who helps others live the Christians life? Please don t boil repentance down so far that you tell people that they just have to make the right choices. That might work for you on an external level, but it certainly doesn t help the rest of us. For the rest of you, the next time that someone boils the Christian life down to pure discipline don t listen to it. Just smile and thank the Lord that you know a better and much more effective way. Process Goals Below are the major process goals for you as you use the heart-training tool. I call them process goals because the Christian life is a process and not an achievement. Growth happens in cycles. Improvement is always possible and we never arrive. God may have us focus in one area of the heart-training and then months, or years later, come back to it because then we are ready and able to go deeper with it than when we focused on it before. Please note that the essence of each of these process goals is for us to use the heart-training as a tool for helping us to love and worship the Lord more fully. Having said these things, allow me now to be more specific about the purpose of the heart-training statements and the major process goals you should have for yourself as you use it. The First Major Process Goal The first process goal of heart-training is for you to use the heart-training as a tool for teaching your heart about the character of God, forgiveness and cleansing, about how to change, and about the love and acceptance of God. In general, use the sections in the heart-training under Group One, and also under Group Two. Keep in mind that it is likely that you won t be as successful as you desire with this first process goal until you move on and begin focusing on the second and third process goals. So on one hand, you can t afford to rush through these early concepts, but you can t let yourself get stuck here either. The heart-training sections in all the major groups work together to loosen the hard ground of our heart. So just keep moving with the heart-training because eventually, momentum will build as your love for God grows more and more. The seeds of the word of God will get planted in your heart, they will be watered, and they will begin to grow. When teaching your heart about how NOT to change use the section by that title and also the next called, Trusting the Cross: Trusting the Punishment that Christ Took upon Himself. Your goal for this area of focus is to get your heart to begin believing that it is sin for you to use condemnation and guilt as tools for repentance and change. Both of those sections will be important for changing you in this area. At this point, you can move to the section called, I CAN Change, I can direct my heart toward God. Or, you can move to the next sections about the character of God and come back to this.

13 Introduction 13 The order here isn t nearly as important as the simple fact that you need to change how you think about repentance and change. Doing this is vital because using condemnation in order to force growth and change makes us cower inside. It closes us off from God. Condemnation and guilt as tools for change harden our heart and make it very difficult for the heart-training to do the work it is intended to do. So let the statements and the verses in these sections work in deep. Then later when you get discouraged about how slow things are moving, come back to these sections because they will encourage you to keep going with the heart-training. The next major portion in this first process goal involves the character of God. For this area of focus you should use the section called, Truth about God and the next one called Changing Mis-beliefs about God. These sections are a great place to start if you have been hurt deeply and you are having difficulty trusting the Lord. If that is the case with you, use these sections to begin softening your heart but remember what I said earlier about not getting stuck here. There are normally many issues affecting our inability to trust God. Just keep using the heart-training because as you do that, the Holy Spirit will guide you and help you work through the heart issues affecting your faith and trust. The next sections in the group two have to do with the love and acceptance of God. There are also sections here for hearing God speak, prayer, and the calling and will of God. Use these sections as needed but try to remember they are here because it is likely they are ones you will need to come back to at a later time. The Second Major Process Goal The second process goal for you is to use the heart-training as a tool for removing the obstacles between you and the Lord by turning from feeding yourself in earthly and human ways. This process goal includes any of the heart-training sections in group three through group six. This second goal involves coming to a place where you rest from having to feed yourself by sin, or by subtle forms of internal self-directed praise. Use the heart-training to remind your heart that you want security, a sense of confidence, and strength. Along with this, use the heart-training to teach your heart to believe and love that God is a better and much more realistic source for you to meet these needs. Make it your intention to allow the heart-training to change you from wanting, and from working to achieve a sense of having human glory yourself so that you can feed yourself emotionally with that. Let your heart hear, believe, and love feeding on and enjoying the closeness of God. Since Christian maturity is all about greater dependance on God, know for certain that depending on God this way is right and good for you. Depending on God is also central to what it means to have God as your God. Said another way, this second process goal is for you to use the heart-training to get your heart to love finding the refuge you need by trusting the presence of God to draw near and surround you so that you can find refuge and strength by being IN Him. Note also that this second process goal includes the heart-training sections in group five. These sections are important because they focus on heart-training statements aimed and removing obstacles that come from influences outside of ourselves. These outside influences include other people outside the church, the demonic, and also religious people inside the church. Know What to Expect The heart-training is designed to remove obstacles from all of these things, just by your using it. You won t really need to think about these process goals. Just keep making sure you are faithful to use the hearttraining tool.

14 Introduction 14 In the early stages of heart-training you will find yourself greatly encouraged and built up. And, if you keep going with it, you need to know some about what to expect. Under normal conditions, human energy and motivation come from internal praise toward ourselves. The heart-training will help you to turn from doing this (But if you are like me, it won t ever be a 100% kind of turning from living this way). Just know that the heart-training tool is effective enough that if you keep going with it, you will go through a time where motivation and energy greatly decrease. When this happens, you need to know that the heart-training is working. You are changing from feeding yourself with internal selfdirected praise, but you haven t yet made the transition to finding that motivation (and energy on a human level) through your relationship with God. This stage is kind of a no man s land. By that I mean it is hard and not fun at all! Just know that you need to keep moving forward! The heart-training will help you! Important: All of us have areas in our heart that are more hard than others. These don t always soften easily with a direct approach. If you recognize some problem and go to a section that seems directly related, it is possible that you won t be able to break the hardness because of too much self-protection. When that happens, you can t stop heart-training. You need to go to a different section that you believe may be related to the problem as you know it. Eventually what happens, is that you will find the key that begins to soften your heart and then when you come back to the main section you know to be a problem you will find a lot more success breaking through. The Third Major Process Goal The third process goal for you in using the heart-training is for you to find spiritual understanding and freedom to draw near to God and let Him draw near to you. The one main heart-training section for this third process goal is in Group Seven, and is titled, Our Access and God s Grace to Draw Near. By the time you get to this section, most of the concepts won t be new because most of the verses used in this section are used throughout the entire heart-training book. Note also that for getting your heart to believe you can receive the presence of the Lord, the sections that are most important at the start are the early ones about forgiveness and cleansing, and also the sections about security and protection. Diligence in applying yourself to the earlier process goals of the heart-training enables you to do this third goal. In other words, if you haven t been diligent with the first two process goals the third and fourth process goals won t seem realistic to you at all. Allow me to explain. The Bible tells us to Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8). We are also told to...have confidence to enter the holy place... (Heb. 10:19). And,...through [Jesus] we...have our access in one Spirit to the Father (Eph. 2:18). Jesus also told us that...no one comes to the Father but through Me (John 14:6). And,...Christ... died...so that He might bring us to God... (1Pet 3:18). To me, these verses have just as much application to this life as after we die. So if we draw near to God how can we be sure that He will draw near to us? Well, the short answer is that doing that is just how it works. When we draw near to God we are getting close to the radiance of the Holy Spirit surrounding the Father and the Son. So, as we draw near to God, He draws near to us HERE simply because we have come close to Him. The principle is simple. If you get close to a fountain, you are going to get wet. And that is what we are doing when we get close to God. Reality is however, that drawing near to God is something that has to be spiritually understood.

15 Introduction 15 So why aren t we drawing near as we should? I believe the main obstacle is our pride from feeding ourselves in earthly ways and living to the praise of our own human glory. The Bible says that...god resists the proud... (1Pet 5:5 KJV). The heart-training is for helping you to humble your soul so that you can do these things with freedom and childlike joy. So while we know in our head that we should draw near to God, we really ought to expect that before we humble ourselves from feeding on earthly things, we really won t being able to draw near, and we certainly won t understanding how to do it. But the good news about this is that as you do your heart-training, understanding WILL come. You will know how to enter before the Lord, and freedom to draw near WILL come. So the real issue with entering and drawing near to the Lord isn t really about knowing how to do it. It has a lot more to do with removing the obstacles that keep us from the understanding just being there. The more the obstacles are removed, the more the Holy Spirit will be free to teach you and the more you will understand. That is why applying yourself to the earlier process goal for using the heart-training enables you to be able to do this third process goal. There is more. The Bible explains that it was by the grace of God that...you have been saved through faith... (Eph 2:8). It also says that...we...receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal 3:14). And then regarding life after salvation, the Bible tells us that...as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, (Col. 2:6 ). So receiving Christ for salvation was by faith. We continue to receive Him by faith after salvation the same way. How does it work? The Bible explains about salvation that...we were all made to drink of one Spirit (1Cor 12:13). So when we received Christ at the start we believed God and at the same moment in time, we also drank the Holy Spirit from Him. The Bible also explains that He saved us...by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior (Titus 3:5-6). So we received the Holy Spirit for salvation by drinking the Spirit of God who was poured out through Jesus. We know from scripture that Jesus is still...the radiance of [the Father s] glory... (Heb. 1:2,3. And we know that our God continues to be...the fountain of living water... (Jer. 17:13). So I believe that after salvation we walk in Him, we walk inside His presence, by learning to keep on drinking from God all the time:...jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.' But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified (John 7:37-39). So the Bible is true when it says that...you give them to drink...for with You is the fountain... (Psa. 36:8,9). Now we know in our head that we need to draw near and drink from the Lord. And we also know that we ought to believe it because...we...receive...the Spirit through faith. (Gal 3:14). Even further, we know that we MUST believe it because the Bible tells us that...he who comes to God must believe that...he is a rewarder of those who seek Him. (Heb. 11:6). So why aren t we doing it? Certainly a few are drinking from God, but why aren t vast numbers of Christians drawing near and drinking from God? Jesus explained when He said, How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God? (John 5:44). So receiving glory from earthly sources is damaging to our faith for receiving from God. Allow me to say again that drawing near to God is something that has to be spiritually understood. So is drinking from Him. That is why the first goal for using the Heart-training is for you to do your part in removing the obstacles of pride and of drinking glory from earthly sources.

16 Introduction 16 Will you or I ever be successful at removing these obstacles completely? I don t believe so. Certainly my own experience is testimony to that. All we can really do is go after re-training our heart so that enough of these obstacles are removed for us to go on to working toward the next goals of the heart-training. Then we have to continue with the heart-training in order to maintain these changes. So just keep turning your faith away from trusting earthly sources to feed you and toward the Lord. And keep on doing this until you change to a place of being free to confidently believe that the grace of God is so great that you are able to draw near to God and continually receive the glory that is the presence of God. By this you will be living in the realm of the kingdom of God and praising God s glory HERE (instead of praising your human glory). The Bible calls it living to the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:12) and also living to the praise of the glory of His grace (Eph. 1:6). More information about doing this is available in the section by that title toward the end of this book. The Fourth Major Process Goal The fourth process goal for you in using the heart-training is for you to transition from living to the praise of your glory, to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:12). This fourth process goal involves learning to stay in the throne room HERE, before the Lord, and exalt Him as your God by your worship and your dependance on Him. This fourth process goal is where you trust that God has drawn near to you by bringing heaven with Him all around you here. Remember again that the first process goal was for you to learn to find refuge in the presence of the Lord. This fourth process goal is where you learn to possess the kingdom of God because he who takes refuge in Me...will possess My holy mountain (Isa. 57:13). When you possess the mountain of God, you will have taken possession of His kingdom (if you are like me, you will still have to keep using the heart-training in order to maintain this level of abiding ). This fourth process goal is for you to use the heart-training to teach your heart to trust that Jesus and the Father are before you here, and angels are all around. Here, you also learn to keep your eyes on Jesus and the Father, trusting God to be clothing you with His power: And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high (Luke 24:49). And even here just as in the first process goal, you are still trusting that...we...receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal 3:14). And let me say again that...it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all... (Rom. 4:16). Certainly by this stage in your heart-training your love and worship toward the Lord will have greatly increased. There is a practical human benefit that is part of this fourth process goal. You need to understand this also. This fourth process goal in your using the heart-training is also for you to change to a place where motivation and energy come from knowing, believing, and enjoying that you are exalting the Lord in a very significant and eternally valuable way. Let me to explain. Motivation and Energy to Face the Challenges of Life Our humanity is in a fallen state and doesn t measure up to the glory standard set inside us.

17 Introduction 17 When we are living according to the flesh, motivation and energy come from our level of confidence to believe that our human glory is, and will be, worthy of honor and respect, praise and love. As long as we can believe that we are and will be worthy of these things, then motivation and energy levels remain strong. If for any reason we can t believe or we loose hope of being worthy of honor, respect, praise, or love, then energy and motivation escapes us. When we are living according to the flesh, we are living to the praise of our own human glory. Honest evaluation brings a recognition that living to the praise of our glory is meaningless and empty. And deep inside we sense that the value of our praise is insignificant. It doesn t last beyond our own existence. And, the result is a wasted life. When we live according to the Spirit, our humanity is still in a fallen state, but the presence of God is making up for what our humanity lacks. The fourth goal for you in using the heart-training is for you to learn to live according to the Spirit where our motivation and energy on a human level comes from knowing that our praise toward God is honoring Him so greatly that we enjoy the fact that the value of our praise will last for eternity. Consider now how our praise and worship becomes a cycle of such great motivation and energy that we want to...continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God... (Heb. 13:15). It is our spiritual service of worship (Rom 12:1), to present our bodies to the Lord. Doing that requires that we trust the promise of the new covenant where it says,...i will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16). So when we are believing God is walking among us, and that heaven is all around us here,...we have...witnesses surrounding us... (Heb. 12:1) in vast numbers watching and joining us as we praise Him (examples of those in the heavenly audience are listed in Heb. 11). Also surrounding us are very many thousands of...rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places (Eph. 3:10). They also are witnesses to our praise. And, by freely admitting our childlike neediness and dependance on the closeness of God and His kingdom, we exalt and honor Him in heavenly realms before a vast audience of heavenly beings. When we feed ourselves from earthly sources or from the glory of our humanity, our demonic enemy enjoys it. They glory in our dependance on earthly things. They party in it. But we avoid being reason for the enemy to celebrate and party when we let ourselves enjoy that truth while we are worshiping Him, we feel energy and motivation because of it;...since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe (Heb. 12:28). And by praising Him as a God who is greater than the gods of this world, we are exalting Him above...spiritual forces of wickedness... (Eph. 6:12). By consciously enjoying this truth during our worship toward God, we are strengthened We have motivation and energy on a human level. We find significance that is eternal, and our life is NOT wasted because of it. So, when we let ourselves believe and be confident that our praise and worship is VERY significant; and that our exalting God has eternal value, we find ourselves filled with motivation and energy that affects our entire life. By this, we find a kind of motivation and energy that creates an on going cycle. The motivation and energy that we find from confidently believing that our worship and praise is highly significant and has eternal value supplies a kind of motivation and energy that keeps us doing the same thing over and over. By this we are living to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory (Eph 1:12). We are living to the praise of the glory of His grace... (Eph 1:6).

18 Introduction 18 Our praise and worship is significant in the heavenly realms and it has value that will last for eternity. Know with certainty that we are constantly drinking from something that has glory, and it is an energizing kind of praise that is always the result. So instead of earthly things, Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name (Heb. 13:15). It is a sacrifice of praise because we are sacrificing praise that would normally have gone toward us. And our life is NOT wasted because of it! Allow me to repeat myself but say it more briefly. Seek to worship and praise the Lord while trusting that God has drawn near with heaven is around you here, with Jesus and the Father in front of you, and with angels all around you here; and while being confident about the eternal value and significance of your worship, make it your intention to find motivation and energy humanly speaking, from exalting the Lord by boasting in the Him, and in the kingdom of God being all around you here. Don't Feed on Your Spiritual Achievements! Every time you grow to some new level with God you should expect to have to fight against turning from God and feeding yourself with the achievement rather than with God Himself. This too is a works approach to life rather than resting in His grace. Be careful about this one because I have been at this for many years and I still struggle on this point sometimes. A Warning and a Challenge For as long as you feed yourself with the new heights you have achieved you will plateau and stop growing. None of us can afford to do that. We have to keep moving forward. Remind your heart over and over that it is only by standing before the Lord and looking at Him that He is able to author and perfect your faith (Heb. 12:2). Drinking from God and enjoying His presence is our only and our best option. Anything else is an idolatrous and prideful substitution. What if you don t feel like rejoicing about the truth? You are treating the truth with honesty when you thank God for what you know to be true in your head even when you don t feel like it in your heart. The truth is worthy of delight and passion in your tone of voice even when your heart isn t there yet! Process Goals Let me say again that the goals for your heart-training are process goals. That means that none of us ever fully arrive at some vague and lofty spiritual goal. All we can do is to get the change started as best as we can by using the heart-training. Then, we have to keep using the heart-training so that we can maintain this change. At times I have been frustrated that I can t seem to grow past using the heart-training. But then it is as though I realize all over again that the Christian life is always a process. Obstacles between us and the Lord find there way in. That is just the way it is. So in order to keep growing, heart-training has to be a way of life. And the way I see it, that is just another one of those things that won t ever change.

19 Heart-Training Core Classes for Your Heart Group One...let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God... (Hebrews 13:15). to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:12). Most important... While Heart-training is a form of prayer that God listens to, it should be aimed primarily toward the ears of our heart. Speak these statements out loud even though it may be uncomfortable to do so. Determine that you are going to get yourself to hear the truth. That you REST into believing may be more important than any other single factor in our effectiveness at directing our affections and pursuits toward God. Heart-training that is effective must be done assertively and with a conscious intent to listen and hear what we are saying. Speak these things with great joy in your tone of voice. Your heart may not feel joy at the moment but the truth in the heart-training statements are worthy of joy. Since the statements are true it is honest to speak it with joy even if your heart isn t feeling it at the moment. The importance of delight in your tone of voice cannot be over emphasized. Heart-training with a tone of joy in your voice is key to what will give the breakthrough that you desire. Lord God, I delight that I don t have to achieve what I need apart from You! I delight to humble myself from having to earn or deserve Your presence. I rest into believing the scriptures. I delight that You have given me access to the Father. You have made a way for me to enter the throne room, stand before You, and glory in Your presence! I rest into receiving Your Holy Spirit. Your presence is my righteousness, my good, my security, my confidence. I set my heart to love You Lord! Caution: Don t expect that you need to master any of these sections before you move on to the next. That will only make it harder for you to direct your heart toward God. Let all of these sections work together. When you have trouble hearing and believing one of the sections, another section may help you to have breakthrough. Then when you go back and focus again on what was difficult earlier, you may find it a lot easier to believe and live. Say the statements out loud and listen to what you are saying until your heart hears, believes, and loves the truth. Keep moving in the heart-training unless you feel God directing you to stay in one section for a while. Barry Hall 2011 Barry Hall

20 Believing and Enjoying the Truth About God 20 (These scriptures may be hard for you to deeply believe at first. Even so, read them out loud. Ascribe glory to God by impressing the greatness of these truths on your heart. Purpose to listen to what you are saying. Eventually, your heart will hear. You will believe. And, your delight in God will increase.) (This...) Heart hear this: God is good. It is evil that is evil! (And, then one of these...)... (Your name), delight in the truth about God! I can trust God because He does not lie. IT IS WRITTEN that He is...god, who cannot lie... (Titus 1:2). (pause to feel reassured by it!)...has He spoken, and will He not make it good? (Num. 23:19). (pause to feel reassured by it!) God is not a man, that He should lie... (Num. 23:19). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect (Rom. 12:2). (pause to hear it)... (Your name), delight that it is safe for me to trust God because He is holy, righteous, and very good. Heart, rest into believing that God is good to me. I love the truth that...the Lord is good... (Psa. 135:3). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...holy is He. (Psa. 99:3). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness... (Psa. 11:7). (pause to feel reassured by it!) You are good and do good... (Psa. 119:68). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting and His faithfulness to all generations. (Psa. 100:5). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) O taste and see that the Lord is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! (Psa. 34:8).... (Your name), I love the truth that I don t have to stay away from God because He forgives me freely. I rest into receiving the touch of God s cleansing on me and in me....you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive... (Psa. 86:5). And, I love the truth! If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) God says to me that I...am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins (Isa. 43:25). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud, and your sins like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you (Isa. 44:22). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), delight in the truth that I don t have to be afraid to get close to God because God is kind, slow to anger, and compassionate. Heart, it is safer to trust God than to trust in earthly things or in myself. Heart, rest into believing and let yourself feel joy about God. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate (Psa. 116:5). (pause to hear it)...you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness (Psa. 86:15 NIV). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...his anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime... (Psa. 30:5). (pause to hear it) The Lord s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail (Lam. 3:22). How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God... (Psa. 36:7). (pause to feel confidence from it!)

21 Believing and Enjoying the Truth About God 21 (This...) Heart hear this: God is good. It is evil that is evil! (And, then one of these...)... (Your name), I am humbling myself into believing and loving that truths apply to me... God...has not despised...the afflicted; neither has He hidden His face from him... (Psa. 22:24). God promised with an...everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants... (Gen. 17:7; and also Gal. 3:29). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped... (Psa. 28:7). (pause to feel reassured by it!)...jesus prayed,...of those whom You [Father] have given Me I lost not one (John 18:9).... (Your name), it IS the truth that I don t have to be afraid to let God draw near to me. Heart, rest into believing that God will not abandon or betray His people and God will not abandon or betray me. God says to me that...i will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you (Heb. 13:5). He is...the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls (1 Peter 2:25). And, I love the truth about MY God!...God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16). My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people" (Ezek. 37:27). I will also walk among you and be your God... (Lev. 26:12)....the Lord will not abandon His people, nor will He forsake [us, as] His inheritance (Psa. 94:14)....the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name... (1 Sam. 12:22).;...those who know Your name will put their trust in You, for You...have not forsaken those who seek You (Psa. 9:10). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...he will not fail you... (Deut. 4:31). My God is not like other people who have failed me. I will trust Him....He...is called Faithful and True... (Rev. 19:11). (pause to love the God who is close!)... (Your name), enjoy the truth I don t have to be afraid to draw near to God. God is loving and He takes pleasure in His people. Heart, this IS the truth! God loves and He takes pleasure in me!...the Lord loves His people... (2 Chron. 2:11). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you (Deut. 23:5). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...the Lord takes pleasure in His people... (Psa. 149:4). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...great is your love toward me... (Psa. 86:13 NIV). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...he will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. (Zeph. 3:17 NIV).;...love is from God... (1 John 4:7). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...heart, delight that I don t have to stay away when I am hurting because God comforts His people. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit (Psa. 34:18). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...god...comforts the depressed... (2 Cor. 7:6); As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you... (Isa. 66:13). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...i, am He who comforts you... (Isa. 51:12);...the Father of mercies and God of all comfort (2 Cor. 1:3). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

22 Believing and Enjoying the Truth About God 22 (This...) Heart hear this: God is good. It is evil that is evil! (And, then one of these...)... (Your name), rest into loving the truth that I don t have to protect myself from believing God s love for me. God s perfect love for me casts out my fears! (1 John 4:18). (pause to believe, and love the truth!) God s love for me IS patient and kind! (1 Cor 13:4 RSV). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!) God s love looks for ways of being constructive with me! (1 Cor. 13:5a Phillips). (pause to hear it) For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines...he disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness...afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness (Heb. 12:6,10,11). God does NOT get irritated in His love for me! (1 Cor 13:5 The Living Bible). (pause to hear and love it) God s love for me is NOT condemning in any way! (Rom. 8:1). And, I love the truth about God! God s love for me is NOT like a roaring lion that is seeking to devour me! (1 Peter 5:8). God knows everything about me, yet still, God deeply loves me I cannot escape it! (Psa. 139). God s love does not decrease when I fail! (1 Cor. 13:8; Romans 5:8; Romans 8:36-39). (pause to hear it) God s love for me does not increase when I succeed! (Eph. 3:17-19). (pause to feel reassured by it!) God s love for me is good. God s love is good enough for me to trust! (Psa. 34:8; John 15:9)....my faith and my trust in God s love causes Him to feel pleasure! And without faith it is impossible to please Him... (Heb. 11:6). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation. (Psa. 149:4). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!) I turn my heart to abide inside Your love. I rest into receiving the touch of God s love all around and in me. keep yourselves in the love of God... (Jude 1:21). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...god is love, and the one who abides in love, abides in God and God abides in him (1 John 4:16)....abide in My love. (John 15:9). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you. (Psa. 33:22 NIV). You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. (Deut. 6:5). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...cling to Him. (Deut. 13:4). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...the Lord longs to be gracious to you...he waits on high to have compassion on you... (Isa. 30:18). 'For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and...of Judah cling to Me,' declares the Lord, 'that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen.' (Jer. 13:11). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I love that I can receive from the radiance of God like a sponge. I CAN draw near to God and my need is so great, that the more I love and enjoy being secure and strong in God s presence, the more it helps motivate me to keep the drinking straw of my inner being, pointed toward the closeness of the Lord and His kingdom 24 hours-a-day. (pause to hear, believe, and love the closeness of God and the kingdom of God, all around you here!)

23 Believing and Enjoying the Truth About God 23 (This...) Heart hear this: God is good. It is evil that is evil! (And, then one of these...)... (Your name), God IS our healer. So, rejoice in the truth that the radiance of the Holy Spirit is pouring out all around God. And since...we...receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal 3:14), I am RESTING into believing and receiving the touch of God s healing power all around and in me. IT IS WRITTEN that...i, the Lord, am your healer (Exo. 15:26). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him (Acts 10:38). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...the Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8)....all the people were trying to touch Him, for power was coming from Him and healing them all (Luke 6:19). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...he saw a large crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick (Mat. 14:14). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever (Heb. 13:8). (pause to hear and love it) Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits; who pardons all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases (Psa. 103:2,3; see also Mat. 8:16,17 and Isa. 53:4,5). (pause to feel confidence from it!)... (Your name), delight in the truth that I don t have to hide when I feel insecure! God is a refuge of strength and power for His people. And Lord, I am trusting that I am protected by YOUR presence. The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble (Psa. 9:9 NIV). God is to us a God of deliverances... (Psa. 68:20). And, I love the truth about God! The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? (Psa. 27:1). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it and is safe (Prov. 18:10). It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man (Psa. 118:8). (pause to hear and love it)... (Your name), God does NOT give the glory from our worship to any other (Isa 42:8). But God DOES give the glory of His presence because the Lord gives grace and glory (Psa. 84:11). And since God wants US to be His glory here on earth (Jer 13:11), I am trusting that the glory of God is with me! The glory of God distinguishes us from other people (Exo 33:15-18)! Heart, the glory of God is what makes me special!...as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and...of Judah cling to Me, declares the Lord, that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen (Jer 13:11). The Lord bless you...the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace (Num. 6:24-26 NIV). (pause to feel confidence from it!)...the Lord gives grace and glory; no good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly (Psa. 84:11). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...the God of all grace... (1 Peter 5:11);...your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom (Luke 12:32). (pause to hear and love it)...the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His... (2 Chron. 16:9). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!) O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary...god...himself gives strength and power to the people... (Psa. 68:35). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

24 Believing and Enjoying the Truth About God 24 (This...) Heart hear this: God is good. It is evil that is evil! (And, then one of these...)... (Your name), delight in the truth that I don t have to avoid God even when others hurt me. (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!) God is a righteous judge... (Psa. 7:11). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...his judgements are true and righteous... (Rev. 19:2). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...the Lord is a God of justice; how blessed are all those who long for Him (Isa. 30:18). Behold, these are the wicked; and always at ease, they have increased in wealth...when I pondered to understand this, it was troublesome in my sight until I came into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end (Psa. 73:12 and 16,17). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name), I don t have to stay away from God because Jesus is the righteousness I need inside me, AND when God s presence touches my body, His cleansing makes me holy on the outside also. I rest into believing it as the truth because IT IS WRITTEN that I am...sanctified by faith in [Jesus Christ] (Acts 26:18). So, I rest into receiving the touch of God s holiness all around and in me. Heart, believe it because IT IS WRITTEN that...i am the Lord who sanctifies you (Lev. 22:32). God has promised and He won t hold back:...i will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols (Ezek. 36:25). Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely... (1 Thess. 5:23)....draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water (Heb. 10:22). (pause to hear it) Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies (Rom. 10:33).... (Your name), it is best to turn my heart toward God. My God is greater than all the other gods!...i know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all the gods (Psa. 135:5). (pause to hear)...i, the Lord, am the first, and with the last. I am He (Isa. 41:4). And, I love the truth about God!...you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God (Exo. 34:14). (We get jealous because we can t get. God gets jealous because He can t give.)...it is Heaven that rules (Dan. 4:26). And, I love the truth about God!... (Your name), it is right and safe for me to trust that God wants to draw near and have relationship with me. Heart, let yourself find courage and feel joy because of these truths!...god is Light...if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another... (1 John 1:5,7);...as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, (Col. 2:6 ). The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all (2 Cor. 13:14). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) God is spirit... (John 4:24); Now the Lord is the Spirit... (2 Cor. 3:17). (pause to feel reassured by it!)...they shall call His name Immanuel, which translated means, God with us. (Mat. 1:23)...have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus...draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean and our bodies washed... (Heb. 10:19, 22). Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8; also Heb. 4:16). (pause to hear it)

25 Trusting Salvation for the Acceptance of God 25 Barry Hall (Your name), hear this,...the gospel of God, [is so] that...the Gentiles might become acceptable... (Rom. 15:16). And...to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness (Rom. 4:5). So it is because of believing God for my salvation that I have His righteousness and His full acceptance!...abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness... (James 2:23). Heart, rest into believing the truth that I HAVE the acceptance of God because I am trusting the gospel about Christ! Thank You Lord! I turn away from wanting to earn Your acceptance by (something from the diagram)..... (Your name), I am turning away from protecting myself with disbelief. By salvation I have the acceptance of God. And because of my faith, I have the approval of God AND His pleasure (Heb 11:1,2,6). And Lord, I submit to the truth and I rest into enjoying Your full acceptance of me. Right now Lord, I am trusting that Your presence is inside me and all around me touching me. Lord, Your Holy Spirit is what makes me acceptable. And Lord, I am letting myself believe and enjoy the truth that You are accepting me without any holding back... (pause to let yourself enjoy the acceptance of God!).. (Your name), under the Old Covenant, When you [make] a sacrifice...to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. (Lev. 22:29). And again, Now when you offer a sacrifice...to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. (Lev. 19:5). As a soothing aroma I will accept you... (Eze. 20:41; see also Eze. 43:27)... (Your name), under the New Covenant,...Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God... (Eph. 5:2) and He Himself is the...[payment] for our sin... (1 John 2:2). (pause to hear and love it)...christ...gave Himself up for us...a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. (Eph. 5:2) (pause to believe the truth and enjoy being reassured by knowing that God accepts you!)... (Your name), it is...by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast (Eph 2:8,9). So, the acceptance of God depends on my faith in HIM, and NOT faith in myself. And, I rest into confidently believing that I have the full acceptance of God because of my trusting the power of the sacrifice of Christ. The punishment Jesus suffered was more than enough punishment for me. I have received the gift of salvation because I am trusting that the blood of Christ is more than enough to cleanse me from all my sin. (pause to love the truth and to be reassured about having the acceptance of God!)

26 Trusting Salvation for the Acceptance of God 26...Heart, delight in the truth that I don't have to love a righteousness that comes from what I do that is NOT what makes me acceptable. I set my heart to trust the blood of Christ. I turn my heart to rest confidently in Your full acceptance Lord. And, I pause to let myself enjoy Your acceptance Lord......Heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to get God to use me in order to feel successful or acceptable. I rest into believing that I can walk in the Light of God because God is Light and as I do this, He is cleansing me from all sin and I have fellowship with Him (1John 1:5,7)......Heart, delight in the truth that I am not made acceptable by the ways God has used me in the past. Lord, You are the God who makes me acceptable... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that I don't have to love my spiritual impressiveness as what justifies God s acceptance of me. Jesus died for me I rest in that... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i don t have to (example of what you don t have to do for acceptance) in order to be acceptable to God. I turn my heart to confidently trust the power of the blood of Christ washing and cleansing me. By faith I am trusting that I am walking in the light that shines from Him...(pause to hear and love it)...god is Light...but if we walk in the Light...we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin (1John 1:5,7)......I turn away from trying to justify God s acceptance of me! I love the truth God s presence burns away everything about me that is unacceptable. Lord, I love basking in Your acceptance... The death of Christ made full payment for me and because of it I CAN draw near to God! For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God... (1 Peter 3:18). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast (Eph 2:8,9)....Lord, when Your presence touches me, You make me holy. You are Yahweh M'kaddish......Whoever touches them shall become consecrated (Lev. 6:18 and also Exod. 30:29)....consecrated by My glory (Exo. 29:43)....the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion...by the spirit of judgement and the spirit of burning (Isa. 4:4). and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. (Acts 15:9)....sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. (2 Thess. 2:13 ). Lord, I am trusting YOU to wash me on the inside and on the outside....since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:19,22). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!) Lord, Your presence in me is my righteousness on the inside. And, Your presence around and touching me is my righteousness for the outside of me. I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; I have no good besides You. (Psa. 16:2)....the Lord is our righteousness. (Jer. 33:16). For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness... (Psa. 11:7).

27 Trusting Salvation for the Acceptance of God 27...Heart, delight in the truth that my being acceptable to God is not prevented by what is wrong with me humanly speaking. Jesus died for that too. And I pause to let myself enjoy His acceptance touching me and washing all over me right now... (pause to let yourself love the closeness of God with you!)...heart, delight that I don't have to achieve a higher level of spirituality in order to earn God s acceptance. I put my trust in the power of the blood of Christ. My eyes are on You Lord...(pause to hear and love it)...heart, delight that the acceptance of God can NOT be earned by my kindness toward other people. By trusting God for salvation I enjoy the full acceptance of God. I love Your acceptance Lord......I am NOT made acceptable by helping others because of what I teach them. I put my faith in the power of the death of Jesus that is what earns the acceptance of God for me. Oh I love Your grace Lord... (pause to feel reassured by it and to love the Lord because of it!)...heart, delight that I don't have to love the amount of effort I make and I don t have to earn the acceptance of God by it. I turn my heart to trust the power of the cross and the cleansing that comes from God. I love Your cleansing radiance pressure washing me Lord... (pause to believe God is doing it!)...i turn from disbelieving God s word in an attempt to protect myself. By trusting the power of the cross I have God s acceptance! My faith causes Him pleasure! Lord, I submit into believing that Your acceptance is all around and touching me. And Lord instead of running away from You, I hide myself in your presence in order to find the protection I need... (pause to feel reassured by it!) If his offering is a burnt offering...he shall offer it...that he may be accepted before the Lord. (Lev. 1:3)....offer your burnt offerings on the altar...and I will accept you,' declares the Lord God." (Ezek. 43:27)....Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God... (Eph. 5:2)....Christ also accepted us to the glory of God. (Rom. 15:7). Heart, delight that...there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Rom. 8:1) Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies (Rom. 8:33). Now faith is...the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old gained approval. (Heb. 11:1,2)...Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God (James 2:23). And without faith it is impossible to please Him for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. (Heb. 11:6)....to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, (Rom. 4:5)......the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge... (Psa. 73:28)...when Your presence touches me, You make me holy. You are Yahweh M'kaddish......Whoever touches them shall become consecrated (Lev. 6:18 and also Exod. 30:29)....consecrated by My glory (Exo. 29:43)....the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion...by the spirit of judgement and the spirit of burning (Isa. 4:4). and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. (Acts 15:9)....sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. (2 Thess. 2:13 ).

28 Trusting Salvation for the Acceptance of God 28...Heart, delight that I don t have to protect myself or hide from believing that God accepts me. I rest into believing the acceptance of God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that the power of God s acceptance toward me can t be overcome by how bad I have been. I love the power of God s acceptance of me... (pause to let yourself love God s acceptance!)...heart, delight in the truth that I don't have to do enough in order to possess God s acceptance. I love that God s acceptance is by my believing it... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to earn God s acceptance by how much I know. I rest into receiving the touch of God s acceptance all over and through me... (pause to let yourself enjoy God!)...Heart, delight in the truth that my being acceptable is not prevented by my human condition. I love that the power of God s acceptance is greater... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that I don't have to achieve a higher level of spirituality that earns God s acceptance. I love that Your acceptance is by grace...(pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...heart, delight that I don't have to believe the lies of the enemy that I have to try and earn the forgiveness I need. I denounce these things! Lord, You are my God; rebuke any enemy pushing me away from You. And Lord, I ask that with Your authority and power You would be armor around me that is so strong that the enemy can t get through it...(pause to let yourself hold on to God as armor that is all around you!)...i turn away from trying to justify God s acceptance of me! I love the truth God s presence burns away everything about me that is unacceptable. Lord, I love basking in Your acceptance... [The Father] made [Jesus] who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2Co 5:21). And, I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; I have no good besides You. (Psa. 16:2)....the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge... (Psa. 73:28)...none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned (Psa. 34:22). (pause to hear it) O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! (Psa. 34:8)...all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you. (Mark 11:24) (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...lord, I agree with the scriptures that the payment of Your blood is enough to make me acceptable; I can enter and stand before You confidently and without fear because You wash me holy when I draw near......since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:19,22). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord until He comes to rain righteousness on you. (Hos. 10:12)....the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, (Phil. 3:9)....the Lord is our righteousness. (Jer. 33:16). For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness... (Psa. 11:7). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

29 Changing Misbeliefs About God 29 Changing Misbeliefs About God Barry Hall One of the most common unsafe reactions to pain is that we hold back from God because of fear. The solution requires that we plow up the hard ground of our heart by giving ourselves reasons why it is far safer to hear and believe the truth about God than to keep on believing lies. Note: If this section is especially painful, you may find it helpful to do this page with a friend. Others find it is better to do heart-training in other sections, and then come back to this at a later time. Heart, delight in the truth that I can be confident that I don t have to stay away when I am hurting because God comforts His people. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (Psa. 34:18). (pause to feel reassured and to love the God who is right up close and all around you!)...heart, delight that I am free to be fully confident about the Lord because IT IS WRITTEN that...god...comforts the depressed... (2 Cor. 7:6). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...i am confident about God because He is...the Father of mercies and God of all comfort (2 Cor. 1:3). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!) I am confident that I don t have to stay away from God when I feel oppressed and want to hide....heart, delight that I can be completely confident that God is very good to me because The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. (Psa. 9:9 NIV)...Heart, delight that God cares for me: It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. (Psa. 118:8). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth! And read it again if you need to!)...heart, delight that it is right and good for me to completely rest in my trust toward God because He is...the Father of mercies and God of all comfort (2 Cor. 1:3). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!) I grab my soul and I turn it to You Lord because You are so very good. God s heart is to be kind to me! Lord right now, I am trusting that Your radiant presence is all around me. And, instead of believing the devil s lies about You, I am trusting that You are being very good and kind toward me... (pause to believe and love it)

30 Changing Misbeliefs About God 30 My God is not like other people who have hurt me. And, my God is NOT the evil that tries to hurt me. Heart believe and love the truth that my God is NOT (something from the diagram) (pause to believe and love the truth!) Lord right now, I am remembering that it is the devil who lies to me about what You are like. Lord, I am trusting that Your radiant presence is all around me and that the truth about You is that You are cleansing me, You ARE being good and compassionate toward me. Heart, let yourself believe the truth that God is NOT a God who abandons or betrays His people. And, even though evil might lie to me, God will NOT abandon or betray me... (pause to believe and love it)... (Your name), I love that I can receive from the radiance of God like a sponge. I CAN draw near to God and my need is so great, that the more I love and enjoy being secure and strong in God s presence, the more of Him I can receive. And also, the more I trust His glory with me as what makes me special, the more it helps motivate me to keep the drinking straw of my inner being, pointed toward the closeness of the Lord and His kingdom 24 hours-a-day. (pause to feel reassured and to love the God who is right up close and all around you!) Please note the pages toward the end of this book for entering the throne room and also Appendix A for crawling into His lap so that He can reach inside us and heal our hurts from the past. If your heart is eager and your fears aren t too great go ahead and go there now but know also that this book is organized in the way it is to help you get to the place described above. Some people do better by working through these pages one by one. Others are able to move more quickly. If it takes you longer don t be discouraged because taking longer means the work in you will go deeper. Either way, the spiritual exercises in Appendix A will be very important for you to practice.

31 Heart-Training Core Classes for Your Heart Group Two...let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God... (Hebrews 13:15). to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:12). Most important... While Heart-training is a form of prayer that God listens to, it should be aimed primarily toward the ears of our heart. Speak these statements out loud even though it may be uncomfortable to do so. Determine that you are going to get yourself to hear the truth. That you REST into believing may be more important than any other single factor in our effectiveness at directing our affections and pursuits toward God. Heart-training that is effective must be done assertively and with a conscious intent to listen and hear what we are saying. Speak these things with great joy in your tone of voice. Your heart may not feel joy at the moment but the truth in the heart-training statements are worthy of joy. Since the statements are true it is honest to speak it with joy even if your heart isn t feeling it at the moment. The importance of delight in your tone of voice cannot be over emphasized. Heart-training with a tone of joy in your voice is key to what will give the breakthrough that you desire. Lord God, I delight that I don t have to achieve what I need apart from You! I delight to humble myself from having to earn or deserve Your presence. I rest into believing the scriptures. I delight that You have given me access to the Father. You have made a way for me to enter the throne room, stand before You, and glory in Your presence! I rest into receiving Your Holy Spirit. Your presence is my righteousness, my good, my security, my confidence. I set my heart to love You Lord! Caution: Don t expect that you need to master any of these sections before you move on to the next. That will only make it harder for you to direct your heart toward God. Let all of these sections work together. When you have trouble hearing and believing one of the sections, another section may help you to have breakthrough. Then when you go back and focus again on what was difficult earlier, you may find it a lot easier to believe and live. Say the statements out loud and listen to what you are saying until your heart hears, believes, and loves the truth. Keep moving in the heart-training unless you feel God directing you to stay in one section for a while. Barry Hall 2011

32 How NOT to Change! Ineffective and Sinful Ways of Trying to Change 32 Barry Hall (How NOT to repent: this section should be used together with the one about trusting the power of the cross and the punishment that Christ took upon Himself. Self-contempt prevents us from being able to open up and drink from the Lord. Therefore, it is vital that you train your heart away from self-condemnation!) (This...) (And, then one of these...)...i set my heart to repent the way God wants. It is right to feel sorrow for sin but it is NOT God s will for me to repent by how bad I make myself feel! (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret. (2 Cor. 7:10).... regret means to feel disappointed or distressed about something. Heart, hear this! I must change! But God s will for how I change is to do it WITHOUT regret. Using regret as a tool for change is against God s will and I should consider it sin. (pause to hear, believe and love the God who is close!)...trying to change by anger or self-hate only gives me a false sense of goodness before God......the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. (James 1:20). Getting angry about my bad behavior does not achieve the righteousness that I desire. (pause to believe and love the truth!)...trying to repent by anger and self-contempt makes me feel religious, but it does nothing to change my behavior! I repent of pride from how much pain I cause because of wanting to do better next time... "...the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement...are of no value against fleshly indulgence." (Col. 2:23). (pause to hear, believe and love the truth!) Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement... (Col. 2:18)...self-abasement and self-condemnation is self-made religion because it eases my sense of guilt for sin, just enough so that I don t feel the need to trust the power of the cross of Christ. But no amount of feeling bad will ever make the payment or justify what I have done wrong. Self-inflicted pain doesn't justify us before God because,...god is the one who justifies (Rom. 8:33b)! (pause to believe and love the truth!)... self-abasement or self-contempt may punish me into a temporary appearance of doing better, but it does nothing to change my behavior long term. Heart hear this! Beating myself up won t help me to stop doing the wrong things. I repent of using self-abasement as a tool for trying to produce change! Repentance by anger and self-abasement is sin. (pause to hear, believe and love the truth!)...i repent of trying to help myself and others by a ministry of condemnation (2 Cor. 3:9). Condemnation is attractive because it controls surface sins just enough to have the appearance of glory. Yes, the ministry of condemnation has glory... (2 Cor. 3:9), but all it produces is death in myself and others (2 Cor. 3:7)....I repent of trying to change by how well I perform and then condemning others when they don t. It feels religious but it only shuts myself and others, off from being able to experience God:...woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people... (Mat. 23:13). And, I repent of trying to control bad behavior in myself and others by a ministry of condemnation. Doing that prevents us from drawing near to God. And, it closes us off from receiving His kingdom!...if I demand repentance by self-condemnation I am trying to change in a way that is according to the law and the works of the flesh. The freedom I desire comes from getting my heart to believe the truth... and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses (Acts 13:39). (pause to hear, believe and love the truth)

33 Trusting the Punishment of Christ 33 Barry Hall CAN stop putting my faith in self-inflicted punishment. No matter how bad I make myself feel it won t ever pay the price for my sin I love that I can trust the power of the cross of Christ. Jesus paid with His blood so I wouldn t have to... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...heart, delight that the power of the cross is stronger than my sin. Anger and condemnation won t help me instead of that, I will trust God. Heart, it is right and good for me to trust that the Lord Jesus is my righteousness; I am confident that...the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. (James 1:20). (pause to let yourself feel confident and secure because of the truth!)...heart, delight that it does not pay the price for my human weakness to just go along and live in dullness! I will trust the power of the blood of Christ to cover my human imperfections. The condemnation and pain that Jesus suffered is enough for me. I love You Lord...(pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name), I grab my soul and I turn it away from having to make the payment for what I do wrong! The pain Christ suffered and His death was enough for my sin I love YOU God. I CAN draw near because YOU paid it all... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), IT IS WRITTEN:...He loved us and sent His Son to be the [payment] for our sins. (1 John 4:10; propitiation = payment). Jesus Christ paid for my sin my faith is in the payment that He made for me, NOT in any payment that I could make... (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name), I CAN stop trying to change by making myself feel regret (or remorse):...the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death." (2 Cor. 7:10). (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure because, God is not a man, that He should lie... (Num. 23:19)....having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 5:1).... (Your name), you believe in your head already, it is your heart that doesn t get it. So, I am commanding my heart to hear, believe, and love that the power of the cross of Christ is far greater than my sin :...and [we] will assure our heart before Him in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God (1 John 3:19-21). (pause to let yourself feel relieved and reassured because of the truth!)... (Your name), I repent of feeding on religious pride from how well I put myself down:...the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement...are of no value against fleshly indulgence. (Col. 2:23). (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)... (Your name), I repent of trying to change by how well I perform and then condemning others when they don t. It feels religious but it only shuts myself and others, off from being able to experience God:...woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people... (Mat. 23:13). (pause to let yourself feel relieved and reassured because of the truth!)... (Your name), I repent of condemning and making myself feel guilty for sin because...the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin (1John 1:7). (pause to hear, believe and love the truth)

34 Trusting the Punishment of Christ 34...I humble myself from loving how well I punish myself. I repent of punishing myself even where I sense that my humanity is not enough I don t have to be! God designed me inadequate so that I could depend on Him. Lord, I love Your nearness as my adequacy You are what makes me enough... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to hurt myself even when I know that something is wrong with me. No amount of self-inflicted pain will ever earn justice for what I do wrong Jesus You paid the price. It is safe and right for me to trust God and not myself... (pause to feel confidence from it!)...it doesn t hide me from God to harden my heart by self-condemnation that will never justify what I do wrong. Jesus You took the punishment for my sin You died so that I wouldn t have to. Lord, I love the power of the cross... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i grab my soul and I turn it away from trying to feel bad in order to earn forgiveness for what I do wrong. The death of Christ is more powerful than my sin. I repent from trying to improve by selfcondemnation... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name) hear this: Jesus took the punishment for my sin so that He could bring me to the Father... For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God... (1 Peter 3:18). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!) Jesus said...no one comes to the Father but through Me (John 14:6). (pause to feel reassured by it!)... (Your name), I am confident about being forgiven because...he Himself is the [payment] for our sin... (1 John 2:2)... (Your name), the pain that Jesus took on Himself is payment and justice enough for my sin... Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried...he was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. (Isa. 53:4,5)...we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified. (Gal. 2:16) For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes... (Rom. 1:16). But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, (Rom. 4:5) Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God (1 John 3:21). And, I love You Lord. I love Your presence and, I set my heart to love You with more and more freedom and delight all the time.... (Your name), I am confident and I am secure because...having forgiven us all our transgressions...[he] canceled out the certificate of debt...against us...having nailed it to the cross. (Col. 2:13,14). I love my God who is close:...he Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness... (1 Peter 2:24). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)

35 Trusting the Punishment of Christ 35...Heart, delight that I can humble myself from loving pride because of how much I hurt people. I CAN stop punishing other people in order to make them pay the price for what they do wrong Jesus paid the price for their sin too...(pause to hear and love it)...heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to punish myself for my human inadequacies. I rest in the truth that my humanity will never be enough it doesn t have to be because God is my adequacy (2 Cor. 3:5). Lord, I love that You want to be my God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i grab my soul and I turn it from trying to feel bad in order to earn justice and forgiveness for what I do wrong. The death of Christ is more powerful than my sin. I repent and turn from trying to improve by self-condemnation... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure in the truth that my God is...a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. (Psa. 86:15 NIV). (pause to enjoy it!)... (Your name) IT IS WRITTEN: Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God (1 John 3:21). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), I am confident because, IT IS WRITTEN: Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yes, our God is compassionate. (Psa. 116:5)....His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime... (Psa. 30:5). (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)... (Your name) IT IS WRITTEN: The Lord s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. (Lam. 3:22). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), the pain Jesus suffered was enough for me so that I can draw near to God: For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God... (1 Peter 3:18).... (Your name), I am determined to be joyous about You God: How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God... (Psa. 36:7). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), I am hopeful because God gives me reason to have hope God s plans are to give me a good future and a hope (Jer. 29:11). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure about my relationship to God because I am God s and God is mine (2 Cor. 6:16). God has bought and paid for me with the blood of Christ I do believe that Jesus was punished enough for my sins (1 Cor. 6:20; Rom. 3:24,25). (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)... (Your name), I am confident about being justified. Being justified by God is far greater than anything I could ever earn. I am justified as a gift from God (Rom. 3:24,25). I don t have to work at justifying myself to God.... (Your name), I am confident and I am secure because...i trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. (Psa. 13:5 NIV)....soul...my hope is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be shaken. On God my salvation and my glory rest; the rock of my strength, my refuge is in God. (Psa. 62:5-7). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close)

36 Trusting the Punishment of Christ (Your name), I repent of trying to achieve my own righteousness. I repent of trying to improve by anger toward myself:...the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God (James 1:20).... (Your name), I am turning away from a hard heart and I am letting my heart hear, believe, and love that the power of the cross of Christ is far greater than my sin :...and [we] will assure our heart before Him in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God (1 John 3:19-21).... (Your name), I set my faith in the death of Christ as payment for me because...he Himself is the [payment] for our sin... (1 John 2:2). I am confident and secure because God has given me His righteous. I am not sin any longer. God has made me to be the righteousness of God because of my faith in Jesus Christ God has done it! (2 Cor. 5:21; Rom. 3:22). (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)... (Your name), if I do sin, I can still be confident because Jesus Christ is speaking to the Father in my defense (1 John 2:1 NIV). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure because, God is not a man, that He should lie... (Num. 23:19)....having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 5:1). (pause to let yourself feel confidence from it!)... (Your name), I grab my soul and I turn it away from trying to earn justice and forgiveness for what I do wrong. The death of Christ is more powerful than my sin. I repent and turn from trying to improve by selfcondemnation (Your name), I love that I can receive from the radiance of God like a sponge. I CAN draw near to God and my need is so great, that the more I love and enjoy being secure and strong in God s presence, the more it helps motivate me to keep the drinking straw of my inner being, pointed toward the closeness of Lord and His kingdom 24 hours-a-day.

37 Bitterness and Unforgiveness 37 Barry Hall don t have to soothe myself with bitterness. Lord God, it is Your closeness that soothes and comforts me......the support that I wanted but that they didn t give me, doesn t matter because I can quench my thirst with God... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i don 't have to try and find security from a cup of bitterness toward God when He doesn t cooperate with the way I want things done... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i don t have to use criticism as a tool to get people laughing. The Lord is my delight......i don't have to use bitterness as a way to protect myself in my relationships - with God or with other people... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i don t have to use rejection, criticism, impatience, or contempt as tools for getting other people to do what I want... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i turn my soul away from putting my hope in how well I can protect myself. It is the Lord who is God not me. I love wearing the armor of God s presence He is strong and powerful to protect me... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...lord, You are my King and my God... (Psa. 44:4 NIV)... O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary. The God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God! (Psa. 68:35) You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV) (pause to believe and love the God who is close!) The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; Whom shall I dread? (Psa. 27:1)... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) God is to us a God of deliverances... (Psa. 68:20)... (pause to believe and love the God who is close!) The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (Psa. 34:18) It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. (Psa. 118:8)...I have made the Lord God my refuge... (Psa. 73:28) (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. (Psa. 9:9 NIV)... On God my salvation and my glory rest; The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God. (Psa. 62:7)...You are my strong refuge. (Psa. 71:7)...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8) (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...heart hear this:...justice for man comes from the Lord. (Prov. 29:26)......O Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5) The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. (Psa. 9:9 NIV)... Lord,...You are my strong refuge. (Psa. 71:7) (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)

38 Bitterness and Unforgiveness 38...I don t have to love rejection or criticism toward others in order to refuge myself inside a hard shell of selfprotection... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i don t have to thrill myself with twisted feelings of power from criticism or contempt. Instead of that kind of power, I will enter the sanctuary of God and thrill myself with His power and glory (Psa. 63:1,2)... I turn from wanting pleasure, control, and reassurance from bitterness and withholding forgiveness. I reject bitterness and unforgiveness as a way to feed myself... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!) Thank You Lord that I don't have to believe the lies of the enemy that I have to get the security I need apart from drinking Your presence. I pray that You would rebuke any enemy pushing me to trust depression, selfsabotage, or bitterness as ways to protect myself. I denounce these things! Lord, You are my refuge of great power and strength. You are my God. And Lord, I ask that with Your authority and power You would command the forces of evil to leave me alone and to never come back...(pause to let yourself believe that He is doing it)......i turn my soul away from putting my hope in how well I can protect myself. It is the Lord who is God not me. I love wearing the armor of God s presence He is strong and powerful to protect me... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!) Heart hear and believe this!...the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said, In repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength... (Isa. 30:15). (pause to hear and believe it) The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart exults, and with my song I shall thank Him (Psa. 28:7). (pause to hear and believe it)...god said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16). I love You, O Lord, my strength. (Psa. 18:1). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...by faith I am trusting that my eyes are looking at Your power and glory Lord:...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the one fighting for you (Deut. 3:21)....Do not fear or be dismayed because...the battle is not yours but God's (2 Chron. 20:15)....O Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5) (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) Heart hear this and don t hold back:...be strong and courageous, and act; do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you... (1 Chron. 28:20) (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...o my God, in You I trust... (Psa. 25:1,2). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)

39 Receiving Forgiveness and Cleansing 39 Barry Hall delight in the truth that forgiveness is not earned by how bad I make myself feel Lord, I love that You are so ready to wash me clean. I turn to You...(pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...i don t have to wait for God s forgiveness until I deserve it somehow. Lord God, I love Your grace. And Lord, I am pausing here to let myself believe and love Your forgiveness and cleansing......heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to hide from God when I feel dirty Lord, I hide myself in the washing that flows from You. I love You Lord...(pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...i don t have to wait to trust God s forgiveness until after I have felt enough pain from guilt. Lord God, I love that the power of Your forgiveness is far greater than my sin... (pause to feel confidence from it!)...heart, delight in the truth that no matter what accusation the devil brings against me, I will turn to You Lord and let You wash me clean... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i humble myself from loving pride from thinking that I deserve being forgiven. Forgiveness cannot be earned by how many good works I do for God. I repent of trying to earn forgiveness by (give an example of what you do when trying to earn forgiveness)...(pause to hear and love it)...heart, delight in the truth! I CAN grab my soul and I turn it from trying to earn the forgiveness and cleansing of God. It is right, good, and safe for me to receive forgiveness and cleansing by faith in God...(pause to believe and love the cleansing of God!) Lord right now, I am thinking about Your radiant presence pressure washing me and filling my need... (pause to believe and love it)... (Your name), if I admit my sin to God, He forgives me and cleanses me completely from all unrighteousness. IT IS WRITTEN: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)... (Your name) hear this,...all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you. (Mark 11:24). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name), I don t have to feel shame as I draw near because as I enter, the fountain washes me clean, even my body of flesh;...draw near...in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean...and our bodies washed with pure water (Heb. 10:19 and 22)... (Your name), I am confident and secure because I am...washed...in the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11); And, I am confident about being forgiven because...the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin (1John 1:7). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I submit into fully believing that I am forgiven. God forgives me because I have faith that He is forgiving me and without my trusting God to forgive me it doesn t happen (Acts 26:18; Luke 5:20). I love You Lord! I am confident and secure about being completely surrounded by Your cleansing because...god is Light... (1 John 1:5) And,...if we walk in the Light...the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us... (1 John 1:7)...

40 Receiving Forgiveness and Cleansing 40...Heart, let yourself delight that I don't have to justify or hide from the subtle sins of my heart. Lord, I love that You are so ready to forgive and I am letting myself enjoy Your forgiveness and cleansing right now......heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to hide from God when something is wrong even when I don t know what it is. I repent of pride from thinking that I can protect myself. I turn to You Lord. I set my heart to love hiding myself in You God... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that I don't have to hide my need for forgiveness by holding back from God and wanting Him to submit to my demands. I love You Lord... (pause to hear and believe the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that I am not justified by what I do or don't do when compared to others I turn my heart from trusting myself. And I am letting myself enjoy being cleansed by You right now Lord......I delight that I don t have to use pain and guilt in order to buy forgiveness from God. Lord, I love Your grace to forgive and wash me clean without my having to earn it. Lord right now, I am thinking about Your Holy Spirit shining out from You, pressure washing me and filling my need... (pause to believe and love God who is close!)... (Your name), the cleansing is real because God says, I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me... (Jer. 33:8);...I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. (Eze. 36:25)... (Your name), I am confident and secure in my relationship to God because while I am near to the fountain of God, I am being cleansed holy;...god is Light... (1 John 1:5) And,...if we walk in the Light...the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us... (1 John 1:7)....by the sanctifying work of the Spirit... sprinkled with His blood... (1 Peter 1:2)... (Your name), I don t have to feel shame as I draw near because the fountain of God pressure washes me clean, even my body:...have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus...draw near...in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean...and our bodies washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:19 and 22). God says that He makes me holy,...i am the Lord who sanctifies you (Lev. 20:8).... (Your name), I delight that I can stand before the Lord and live in His Light here:...if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light...the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)....He wraps himself in light as with a garment; (Psa. 104:1,2 NIV)....God is Light... (1 John 1:5)... (Your name), when the enemy makes me feel dirty I present myself before God and He burns away the filth:...the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion...by the spirit of judgement and the spirit of burning (Isa. 4:4);...having our hearts sprinkled clean...and our bodies washed with pure water (Heb. 10:19 and 22). (pause to trust that God is doing this for you right now!)... (Your name), I repent of wrapping myself in disbelief about God s forgiveness and love. IT IS WRITTEN:...the Lord loves His people... (2 Chron. 2:11). And, I love You Lord. I love Your presence and, I set my heart to love Your presence with more and more freedom and joy all the time. I thank You that You love me....the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you. (Deut. 23:5). (pause to love the truth and to love the God who is close to you right now!)

41 Receiving Forgiveness and Cleansing 41...Heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to wait to be close to God. I am trusting His forgiveness and cleansing right now. I don t have to wait until I find a reason why I deserve His forgiveness. I will not trust myself. Lord, I love Your grace to forgive me... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that forgiveness is not earned by how bad I make myself feel Lord, I love that You are so ready to wash me clean. And I am letting my heart enjoy it right now Lord......I don t have to hide from God when I feel that something is deeply wrong with me. Lord God, I am trusting You to touch me and wash my humanity with Your presence. I love Your power to wash away all reason to feel shame... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and to love His cleansing right now!)...i turn from soothing myself with pride myself because of how bad I have made myself feel about sin. The kingdom of God is my glory. I...receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken... (Heb. 12:28). I delight that God s kingdom comes to me and surrounds me with His power that heals and does miracles......heart, delight in the truth that no matter how bad the devil tries to make me feel, I will trust God to wash me clean. I love Your forgiveness Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i turn my heart away from trying to do something to help me deserve the forgiveness and cleansing of God. The Lord is God and I put my faith in Him not me. I love the cleansing God gives freely. Lord right now, I am stopping to trust and to think about Your radiant presence washing me and filling my need... (pause to believe and love it)... (Your name), my God does not hold the memory of my past against me. If I fall to temptation God is always ready to forgive me....for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins (Isa. 43:25).... (Your name), I am confident because IT IS WRITTEN: I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins. (Isa. 43:25). (pause to hear it) Iniquities prevail against me; as for our transgressions, You forgive them. (Psa. 65:3). (pause to hear it)... (Your name), I am secure in my relationship to God because...your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake (1 John 2:12). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You (Psa. 86:5). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you. (Mark 11:24). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure because God washes me inside and out. IT IS WRITTEN:...draw near...in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean...and our bodies washed with pure water (Heb. 10:19 and 22). I am confident about the cleansing power of my being...washed...in the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11). God makes me holy because He says,...i am the Lord who sanctifies you (Lev. 20:8).

42 Receiving Forgiveness and Cleansing (Your name), by drawing near and drinking like a sponge from the Lord I become a spring and a cistern for the LIVING water of God. And, even when something dirty is said or done by others around me, God just keeps on washing me clean. (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...unclean [things,]...whoever touches them...becomes unclean...nevertheless a spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean... (Lev. 11:31-36). (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!) The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst; I, the Lord, will answer them Myself...I will not forsake them. I will open rivers...and springs...i will make...the dry land fountains of water. (Isa. 41:17-18; see Isa 62:4 where it calls people land ).... (Your name), I am confident and secure about drawing near to God because IT IS WRITTEN: All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. (John 6:37);...none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned (Psa. 34:22). (pause to feel reassured and confidence from loving this truth!)... (Your name), In Him we have...the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace... (Eph. 1:7,8 )... (Your name), I am confident because my sins have been forgiven for His glory, for His sake: Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; and deliver us and forgive our sins for Your name's sake. (Psa. 79:9)... (Your name), I confess my sin to God and He forgives me. I turn from holding back because it does NOT depend on whether I deserve it or not;...your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake (1 John 2:12). God forgives me freely because God is God!... (Your name), I stop my resisting and I rest into trusting the truth about the forgiveness of God because...you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive... (Psa. 86:5). (pause to feel confidence from it!)... (Your name), I am secure in the forgiveness and cleansing of God because If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), I set my heart to submit and believe the truth because God is...cleansing their hearts by faith. (Acts 15:9); And right now, I am letting myself enjoy being pressure washed by God (Your name), God makes me holy by my believing the Spirit of God to do it:...sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth (2 Thess. 2:13)... (Your name), I rest into receiving the touch of the Spirit of God all around and in me here:...washed...in the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11). I love You Lord. Oh, I love Your presence!... (Your name), it is not because I earn or deserve forgiveness, it is for God s sake that He forgives me:...your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake (1 John 2:12). (pause to hear and love it) Lord right now, I am stopping to trust and to think about Your radiant presence pressure washing me and filling my need... (pause to believe and love it)

43 Receiving Forgiveness and Cleansing (Your name), I am confident and secure about drawing near because the forgiveness of God cleanses me inside and out. I submit into believing the truth that I...have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus...draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean...and our bodies washed with pure water (Heb. 10:19 and 22). (pause to hear and love it)...[at] the door of the house...water was flowing from under the threshold...water reaching the ankles. (Ezek. 47:1,3)...He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean... (John 13:10) and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal... (Rev. 4:6)....the sea was for the priests to wash in. (2 Chron. 4:6; see also Exo. 30:21). (pause to hear it)...right now Lord, I am trusting that You are washing my feet and that I am being made clean all over because of it. Heart, let yourself enjoy the reality and the ease of being washed with the presence of God right now (Your name), my God forgives me completely. God says to me, I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud, and your sins like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you (Isa. 44:22). And right now I am letting myself enjoy the cleansing of God washing me all over... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure in my relationship to God I confesses sin to God and He is faithful to immediately forgive and cleanse me (1 John 1:9). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name), I love that I can receive from the radiance of God like a sponge. I CAN draw near to God and my need is so great, that the more I love and enjoy being secure and strong in God s presence, the more it helps motivate me to keep the drinking straw of my inner being, pointed toward the closeness of Lord and His kingdom 24 hours-a-day. Lord right now, I am stopping to trust and to think about Your radiant presence pressure washing me and filling my need. Oh, how I love Your closeness and the closeness of the kingdom of heaven all around me here. You Lord, are my greatest treasure... (pause to believe and love it)

44 Heart-Training Core Classes for Your Heart Group Three...let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God... (Hebrews 13:15). to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:12). Most important... While Heart-training is a form of prayer that God listens to, it should be aimed primarily toward the ears of our heart. Speak these statements out loud even though it may be uncomfortable to do so. Determine that you are going to get yourself to hear the truth. That you REST into believing may be more important than any other single factor in our effectiveness at directing our affections and pursuits toward God. Heart-training that is effective must be done assertively and with a conscious intent to listen and hear what we are saying. Speak these things with great joy in your tone of voice. Your heart may not feel joy at the moment but the truth in the heart-training statements are worthy of joy. Since the statements are true it is honest to speak it with joy even if your heart isn t feeling it at the moment. The importance of delight in your tone of voice cannot be over emphasized. Heart-training with a tone of joy in your voice is key to what will give the breakthrough that you desire. Lord God, I delight that I don t have to achieve what I need apart from You! I delight to humble myself from having to earn or deserve Your presence. I rest into believing the scriptures. I delight that You have given me access to the Father. You have made a way for me to enter the throne room, stand before You, and glory in Your presence! I rest into receiving Your Holy Spirit. Your presence is my righteousness, my good, my security, my confidence. I set my heart to love You Lord! Caution: Don t expect that you need to master any of these sections before you move on to the next. That will only make it harder for you to direct your heart toward God. Let all of these sections work together. When you have trouble hearing and believing one of the sections, another section may help you to have breakthrough. Then when you go back and focus again on what was difficult earlier, you may find it a lot easier to believe and live. Say the statements out loud and listen to what you are saying until your heart hears, believes, and loves the truth. Keep moving in the heart-training unless you feel God directing you to stay in one section for a while. Barry Hall 2011

45 Truth About Us: Self-Esteem and Our Human Glory 45 Barry Hall delight in the truth that I don't have to be afraid about not having what it takes to be Ok. I am turning from trusting self-esteem because...the nations will bless themselves in Him, and in Him they will glory (Jer. 4:2). And, I can do that too....heart, let yourself enjoy the truth that the glory of my humanity won t ever measure up to the glory of God. I m free because it is the Lord who is God, and not me!...heart, delight that my humanity won t ever be enough and it doesn t have to be! I turn from having to depend on esteeming myself in order to feel good. And I turn my heart to love that my...adequacy is from God. (2 Cor. 3:5). (pause to believe it!)...heart, delight that I don t have to define success by the glory that I earn and achieve. I repent of pushing to find reasons to pride myself with self-esteem. Instead of that, I set my heart to find the thrill, the confidence, and the security that I need, by enjoying the presence of the Lord and the kingdom of God, right here close to me and all around......heart, delight that I don't have to avoid the truth about my human inadequacies. I don t have to quench my need with the glory of my humanity that won t ever be enough because I want more than that! I set my heart to...glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh (Phil. 3:3). I love You Lord......Heart, delight that I don t have to define success by how much I know or of how much I am learning. I repent of priding myself with the approval of people or with the impressiveness of my humanity. Instead of that, I set my heart to find the thrill I need, by enjoying the presence of the Lord:...You, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head. (Psa 3:3). (pause to believe and love the God!)...Heart, delight in the truth that I am turning from having to depend on myself to be what I need. Lord You are my God the pressure isn t on me, and I rest into putting my trust in You. Right now Lord, I am trusting that Your presence is all around me, reassuring me, and filling my need... (And one of these...)... (Your name), I am determining to let myself be confident and secure in God. I agree with King David who said, My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; the humble will hear it and rejoice (Psa. 34:2).... (Your name), I am determining to enjoy being confident and secure in the presence of God. Heart hear this: Some boast in chariots, and some in horses; but we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God (Psa. 20:7). So,...glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh (Phil. 3:3). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I am confident because the pressure isn t on me to justify my human glory. I turn my heart to trust that...you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head (Psa. 3:3); In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid... (Psa. 56:11). (pause to believe and love the truth!)...where I do wrong or don t measure up in some way, I praise You Lord that...you, Lord are good, and ready to forgive... (Psa. 86:5); I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; I have no good besides You (Psa. 16:2). And, I have set the Lord continually before me...he is at my right hand... (Psa. 16:8).

46 Truth About Us: Self-Esteem and Our Human Glory 46...nothing is so desperately wrong with me that I should avoid God! The only solution is to get close to God so that He can fix it. Instead of self-esteem, My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; the humble will hear it and rejoice (Psa. 34:2). (pause to believe, and love the God who is close!)...my human glory does NOT have to be greater before I deserve closeness to God. I turn my heart to trust that...the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge... (Psa. 73:28). I love the truth that...the Lord is [my] righteousness (Jer. 33:16). (pause to believe it and to love God!)...my human abilities don t have to be worthy of praise. Instead of that, I set my heart to glory in the presence of God by exalting Him instead of myself. It is better to find delight in exalting the Lord because He is God: In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid... (Psa. 56:11). (pause to enjoy the Lord!)...I repent of defining success by how much self-esteem I have. I repent of worshiping other people who seem to have what it takes humanly speaking. Heart hear this: Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. (Deut. 31:6). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...god is the standard and He is my source not other people. I will not fear others who feast themselves on self-esteem:...you shall not fear man, for the judgement is God s... (Deut. 1:17)....do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled. (1 Pet. 3:14). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... success is not to feed myself with my having achieved a new spiritual experience. I set my heart to stay before the fountain of God and exalt Him. That way, God can work because the kingdom of God is here (Your name), my heart IS turning away from my having to struggle at what I need to be. Lord You are my God the pressure isn t on me. I set my heart to glory in the nearness and the greatness of God.Right now Lord, I am trusting that Your presence is all around me reassuring me (pause), being my reason for confidence (pause), and being my reason to NOT be afraid...(pause!) (And one of these...)... (Your name), I am confident and I am secure about being able to bless myself in God because...the nations will bless themselves in Him, and in Him they will glory (Jer. 4:2). (pause to love it!)... (Your name), I am confident about being able to cling to God because IT IS WRITTEN that...as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and...of Judah cling to Me,' declares the Lord, 'that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen (Jer. 13:11). I set my heart to cling to God. (pause to believe it and to love God!)... (Your name), I am confident and I am secure in God. I repent of fear toward other people because IT IS WRITTEN: Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. (Deut. 31:6);...God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16)....I am confident and I am secure about drawing near to God because He says to me that...the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. (John 6:37); In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid... (Psa. 56:11). (pause to feel confidence from it and to love God for the truth of it!)

47 Truth About Us: Self-Esteem and Our Human Glory 47 (This...)... (Your name), confidence and security from the presence of God is far better than what comes from esteeming myself; I love the truth that...confidence...is ours through Christ before God...our competence comes from God (2 Cor. 3:4,5 NIV). Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid... (Isa. 12:2).... (Your name), let yourself love the truth in saying,...o Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5). And, I love turning from having to depend on myself: You are my God...I exalt you (Psa. 118:28 NIV).... (Your name), I am confident and secure in the presence of God. I will NOT fear others who boast in themselves because IT IS WRITTEN: Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the one fighting for you (Deut. 3:21). I turn from fear about their confidence in themselves as their god because...you shall not fear other gods, nor bow down yourselves to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them (2 Kings 17:35). (pause to feel reassured and enjoy that my God is greater! )... (Your name), I am confident and I am secure because by drawing near to God, He draws near and by this I am...armed in the presence of the Lord... (Num. 32:32). I love You, O Lord, my strength (Psa. 18:1). So,...Be strong and courageous, and act... (1 Chron. 28:20). (pause to love God who is close!)... (Your name), I am confident and I am secure about being able to glory in God because...the nations will bless themselves in Him, and in Him they will glory. (Jer. 4:2). (pause to hear it)... (Your name), hear this and rest with confidence because...it is Heaven that rules (Dan. 4:26). And,...the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said, In repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength... (Isa. 30:15). (pause to love God and His kingdom that is close and all around!)... (Your name), I am confident and I am secure because the pressure isn t on me to be my own god:...o my God, in You I trust... (Psa. 25:1,2). (pause to feel reassured and to love trusting God!)... (Your name), I am confident and at peace because I don t have to live to the praise of my own human glory; My soul shall make its boast in the Lord... (Psa. 34:2). I am not the one who has to be worthy of praise!...you, O Lord, are...my glory... (Psa. 3:3 TAB). Heart hear this, He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21). Lord, You are my King and my God... (Psa. 44:4 NIV). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name), relax and believe the truth that I can find a refuge of power and love in the presence of God:...the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! (Psa. 34:8)....My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8)). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name),...do not fear or be dismayed because...the battle is not yours but God s (2 Chron. 20:15). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I am confident and I am secure because it is not about me; Lord,...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5). I am turning away from my having to be what quenches my thirst. Right now Lord, I am trusting that Your presence is all around me reassuring me (pause), being my reason for confidence (pause), and being my reason to NOT be afraid... (pause to believe and love it)

48 Enjoying God as Our Righteousness, Goodness, and Perfection 48 Barry Hall (Your name), I delight that my [ goodness, or righteousness, or perfection ] is......not my human respectability. The nearness of God is my good. I love that I can stand before the Lord and stay inside the Spirit of God. I am trusting that my eyes are looking at You Lord.....not the things I don t do. I can draw near to God and He draws near to me! Lord I rest into enjoying the closeness of the kingdom all around me here. I turn away from finding confidence in what I do or don t do. Right now Lord, I am letting myself enjoy the closeness of Your righteousness as my righteousness......not how well I discipline my behavior and make good choices. Doing that is a good thing, but Lord, I am letting myself enjoy the closeness of Your perfection as my perfection... (let yourself enjoy it!)...not from the closeness of another person. The nearness of God is my good. And Lord, right now I am letting myself enjoy the purity of Your goodness with me is my goodness......not from my having done enough for God. Instead of that, I am believing that God is at work because He is in me. And, He is also working all around me because I am believing that the kingdom of God is here......not how well I provide. The Lord is the provider who is worthy of praise not me. I set my affections on God. By faith I trust that I am looking at the closeness of God and His kingdom all around me here......not based on whether the circumstances cooperate with my plans. Right now, I am letting myself find courage from the closeness and the sovereignty of my God all around me here......not from the results I get. God is sovereign not me. I rest into You Lord not the results I get from the things I do. I turn my eyes to stay focused on God with me here... (pause to feel confidence from it!)...jesus commanded that I should,...seek first His kingdom and His righteousness... (Matt. 6:33). And, it says to Draw near to God and He will draw near to [me] (James 4:8). I...have confidence to enter the holy place... (Heb. 10:19);...through Him we...have our access in one Spirit to the Father (Eph. 2:18). By faith, I trust that I am entering before God and that by this I am receiving the Holy Spirit that radiates from the fountain of God. I am trusting that my eyes are looking at the presence of the kingdom of God all around me here. And, I am letting myself feel confidence from believing that God s presence touching me is perfection, my righteousness, my goodness... (love it!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure because God s presence is around and in me. IT IS WRITTEN:...the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge... (Psa. 73:28); Lord, You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114). I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust! (Psa. 91:2). My eyes are on Your closeness with me here Lord. Your presence touching me is pure goodness... (pause to believe and love God as your righteousness and goodness!)... (Your name), I believe God! The Lord is my Savior and my God. I am confident that I have God s approval because it says that...faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old gained approval (Heb. 11:1,2)....Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness...he was called the friend of God (James 2:23). Lord, I am trusting that Your presence touching me is making my humanity righteousness...(pause to believe and love the truth!)... (Your name), my faith pleases God! I am determined to let myself believe that every time I come to Him He will reward me with His presence: And without faith it is impossible to please Him for he who comes to God must believe that...he is a rewarder of those who seek Him. (Heb. 11:6).

49 Enjoying God as Our Righteousness, Goodness, and Perfection (Your name), I delight that my [ goodness, or righteousness, or perfection ] is......not how well I fix other people. I rest in God because the Lord is the wonderful counselor. God is worthy of praise because He is the One who causes the growth not me. I love that You Lord Jesus made a way for me to draw near to the Father... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...not from how well I manipulate conversations. I put my faith in God as my righteousness all around me. By faith I trust the perfection of God to be all around and touching me. By this, God is my perfection......not how much I prayed today. Praying is important, but I am trusting that I can draw near to God and He does draw near to me. The nearness of the goodness of the Lord is touching me and He is my goodness......not how much I read the Bible. Reading my Bible is vital, but I am trusting God s grace to draw near and be my righteousness... (pause to love and enjoy God as your righteousness!)...not how much I share my faith with others. Witnessing is important, but I am trusting God as my good... (Or one of these...) My righteousness is not from exalting myself above other people who......don't do enough, or who don't measure up... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...are struggling with sin and failing, or who are not spiritual enough... (pause to believe it!)...are not friendly enough, or who don't know or believe the right things... (pause to believe it!)...jesus commanded that I should,...seek first His kingdom and His righteousness... (Matt. 6:33). And, it says Draw near to God and He will draw near to [me] (James 4:8). Therefore I...have confidence to enter the holy place... (Heb. 10:19);...through Him we...have our access in one Spirit to the Father (Eph. 2:18). So, I trust that I am entering before God right now and that by this God is drawing near so that the Kingdom of God is here! Angels are all around me. I am letting myself feel confidence and courage because the righteousness and the perfection of God are here......lord, I am confident that You have given me access into Your presence. I rest into opening up inside to You and I receive Your Presence around me as my goodness, I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; I have no good besides You (Psa. 16:2). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...i am confident because when I draw near to God He draws near to me. And;...the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge... (Psa. 73:28)....the Lord is [my] righteousness (Jer. 33:16)....I am secure in God s love because IT IS WRITTEN:...the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness... (Psa. 11:7). If I do sin, I can be confident because Jesus Christ is speaking to the Father in my defense (1 John 2:1 NIV). And, I am confident that I am forgiven because God forgives me for His name sake (1 John 2:12). I am confident that I am washed because I am trusting that God is washing me with the Light that is God the Holy Spirit (Heb. 10:22; 1 Cor. 6:11; 1 John 1:7; Acts 10:15). (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i am confident and secure because God has made me the righteous of God inside Christ. I am not sin any longer. I am the righteousness of God because I have faith that Jesus Christ has done this for me (2 Cor. 5:21; Rom. 3:22). I am confident that God is my good because He has made me to be a dwelling place for Himself (Rev. 21:3). God has made me a temple where the Spirit of God dwells (1 Cor. 3:16; 1 Cor. 6:19).

50 Enjoying God as Our Righteousness, Goodness, and Perfection (Your name), I delight that my [ goodness, or righteousness, or perfection ] is......not in how well I perform. It is not about the work that I do for God. Lord I am trusting that You are here, Your power is here, and I am believing that You are doing Your work......not in how well I make people laugh. My greatest thrill is causing God pleasure by my faith and my trusting in Him... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not in how clean my house is. It is the nearness of God that is my good not my earthly appearances......not the church I go to. The Lord is my righteousness not my church. The Lord is my God not my church... (pause to believe and love the closeness of God as your righteousness and perfection!)...not in how well I manipulate circumstances and conversations so that people think I am righteous. I turn from praising myself for that. Lord, I praise You God... (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...not in how well I fit in at church. The Lord is my righteousness. His is the acceptance I have and long for most... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not in how well I related to them. I turn from putting faith in my human goodness. I praise God as my good... (pause to believe and love the closeness of God as your righteousness and perfection!)...not in how nice I am to people. The Lord is my righteousness. I set my love on God not on myself......not in how well I make them feel accepted. It is God s acceptance and His love that they long for most......not the appreciation and thanks I get from other people. God is my good. Lord, I praise You not myself... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart hear this. I am turning away from having to achieve the reassurance I need in earthly ways. I rest and rejoice into believing the grace of God because His presence reassures me. I turn my eyes to look at Your closeness to me Lord. And, I am believing that God s presence touching me is perfection (pause), righteousness (pause), goodness (pause)... (pause to believe that God is touching you all around and that HE is your righteousness, perfection, and goodness!)...lord, my confidence and security is because You ARE my I AM. Your Presence around and in me is my goodness:...the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge... (Psa. 73:28); I am confident about being in Christ because...by His doing you are in Christ Jesus... (1 Cor. 1:30);...the Lord is our righteousness. (Jer. 33:16). And, I love You Lord. I am determined to love Your presence with more and more freedom and thrill all the time....i submit into believing this truth: I am not a slave to sin God has made me a son (or daughter) and His heir (Gal. 4:7). I set my heart to trust that the Holy Spirit is leading me I am not under the law that makes me have to earn righteousness before God (Psa. 23:1; Gal. 5:18). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...i am confident and secure because God has called me into fellowship with Jesus Christ and that hasn t changed (1 Cor. 1:9). God has put me in right relationship with Himself. God has done it (2 Cor. 5:18). Jesus Christ calls me His friend (John 15:15). God has chosen me He wants me. God wants the best for me (2 Thess. 2:13; 1 Pet. 2:9; 2 Chron. 29:11). I am at peace because I am trusting that God has justified me (Rom. 5:1). I am confident because God has made me Light in the Lord (Eph. 5:8,9). God has made me the light of the world (Matt. 5:14). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)

51 Enjoying God as Our Righteousness, Goodness, and Perfection (Your name), I delight that my [ goodness, or righteousness, or perfection ] is......not in how well I achieve being a perfect Christian. God is perfect. He is worthy of praise not myself......not in the bad things I help people avoid. God is their deliverer. I praise You Lord, NOT myself......not in my being right and their being wrong. God is the one who is right. Lord, I praise You not myself... (pause to believe and enjoy God as your righteousness and perfection!)...not in how justified I feel about being right. The Lord is my righteousness, God alone is my good. The Lord is the God who justifies my value and my existence. And, God is near... (pause to love Him!)...not to make myself feel bad after I do something wrong. Lord I love that I can admit when I do wrong. I don t have to punish myself or hide. I am confident that the cross is payment that is enough for me. And for my humanity,...the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge... (Psa. 73:28)....not how well I impress them. The Lord is my righteousness. I turn from trying to impress them with myself. I delight and praise You God that Your kingdom comes with power to heal and do miracles. Your kingdom is here and I rest in the Spirit that shines onto me from the radiance around God......not from how well I avoid that I might have done something wrong instead of that, I set my heart to be confident that God is my good. I love trusting that God forgives and cleanses me completely. I love the truth about my being pressure washed;...washed...in the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11)......Jesus commanded that I should,...seek first His kingdom and His righteousness... (Matt. 6:33). And, it says to Draw near to God and He will draw near to [me] (James 4:8). I...have confidence to enter the holy place... (Heb. 10:19);...through Him we...have our access in one Spirit to the Father (Eph. 2:18). By faith, I trust that I am entering before God and that by this I am receiving the Holy Spirit that radiates from the fountain of God. I am trusting that my eyes are looking at the presence of the kingdom of God all around me here: Lord,...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5); I am believing that God s presence touching me is perfection, righteousness, goodness... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i am confident about being cleansed because I confesses sin to God and He forgives and cleanses me (1 John 1:9). I am secure about the forgiveness of God because it is by my faith in Him that He does it (Acts 26:18; Luke 5:20). (pause to believe that God is all around you here and that HE is your perfection!)...lord I am trusting that I am near to You right now. I am cuddling into You. You Lord are my reassurance and my good....my soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8); I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; I have no good besides You. (Psa. 16:2); You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV). (pause to hear it)... (Your name), I am confident because God has made me a new person inside Christ (2 Cor. 5:17). I am confident because my Jesus Christ is wisdom for me. My Jesus is righteousness for me. My Jesus is sanctification for me. My Jesus is redemption for me. What I am inside Christ, I am because God has done it (1 Cor. 1:30). Because of being inside Christ, God has made me complete and I am confident because of it (Col. 2:10). I am confident because I repent of putting faith in myself;...the Lord is our righteousness. (Jer. 33:16). I love You Lord. I love Your presence and, I set my heart to love Your presence with more and more freedom all the time. (pause to believe and love God as your righteousness and perfection!)

52 Changing from Performance to Grace 52 Barry Hall delight in the truth that I don t have to stay away from God because of fear about what people think. Lord, I turn to You because I am confident in You. I reject being afraid. I worship You Father. Thank You Lord Jesus for being the way to the Father and for giving me access (Joh 14:6, Eph 2:18)......Heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to let my desperation push me into trusting how well I perform spiritually. I turn from faith in myself. Lord Jesus I love Your provision for me to enter. I delight in Your grace. I am confident that You draw near to me without holding back... (pause to love the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to measure my performance by how well I feel Your presence Lord. I turn my heart to confidently trust You to carry me near and to quench my thirst. I rest inside Your Presence because I submit to the truth about You being here... (pause to hear and love it)...heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to let pressure from Christians be what drives me. I grab my soul and I turn it from trying to perform for them. Lord I turn to You because You are my God. My confidence and security is in You not them... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i turn from fear of failure about experiencing God s presence. My confidence is in You Lord NOT in my doing spiritual things just right and NOT in how much excitement I force into my worship toward You. I submit into being boldly confident about God s grace and provision for me to draw near and for Him to draw near to me. Heart, let yourself believe that I am near to the fountain of God and that God is here. By faith in the strength of the radiance around God, I am believing that God is shining His presence onto me here. The Holy Spirit is INTENSELY present because of the power of the radiance that thunders onto me from the fountain of God... (love it!)... (Your name), I am secure about experiencing God because It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man (Psa. 118:8). Lord, You are a refuge of power and beauty around me... (pause to love it!)... (Your name), I am confident that God doesn t hold back because...we...receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal 3:14);...God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), IT IS WRITTEN:...he who comes to God must believe...that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. (Heb. 11:6). And, I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust! (Psa. 91:2). (pause to hear, believe, and love God!)... (Your name), I am confident about receiving God s presence because I am boldly believing God s grace to draw near to me;...it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all... (Rom. 4:16);...receive the Spirit...by...faith (Gal. 3:2 implied) (Your name), I am confident in God because I am...being built...into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. (Eph. 2:22). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), even though I don t understand it fully, I am believing that I am before the Lord right now. And, I am confident that when I boldly believe I am close to Him then He is here with me: Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8); for through Him we...have our access in one Spirit to the Father. (Eph. 2:18; see also Heb. 4). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)

53 Changing from Performance to Grace 53...Heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to let my feeling God be what justifies me. My faith is in the power of the blood of Christ. God is the One who justifies me. My confidence is in the truth that Jesus paid the price so that I can draw near to the Father. Thank You that You are here... (pause to love God!)...I don t have to let the hopes of other Christians make me feel pressure to perform spiritually. I turn from having to perform for them. I rest into being confident that I am looking and listening to the Holy Spirit who is pouring out from the glorified Jesus Christ. I am confident because of boldly believing that I CAN do what David did where he said, I have set the Lord continually before me... (Psa. 16:8)...Heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to be afraid to believe because of how much I want God s presence. I grab my soul and I turn my fears away from wanting to avoid God. I rest into boldly believing the grace of God for His drawing near to me. I am confident in You Lord... (pause to confidence from it!)...i grab my soul and I turn it away from trusting the amount of excitement in my worship in order to experience God s presence. My confidence is NOT in how perfectly or in how much excitement I have in my worship toward God, my confidence is in You Lord and, I will NOT fear failure. I am boldly confident about God s grace and provision for me to draw near and that God is determined to draw near to me. By faith in God to do what He says, I rest in faith that God s presence is here all around me and touching me because of HIS grace... (pause to let yourself enjoy God s presence!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure because...the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out (John 6:37). Heart, let yourself be delighted and at peace that...none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned. (Psa. 34:22). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I am confident because I am commanded to...come to the waters...delight yourself in abundance. (Isa. 55:1,2). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), hear this and have fun drinking up the radiance around God like a sponge. I will NOT hold back because I CAN...receive the kingdom of God like a child... (Luke 18:17); Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. (Luke 12:32). (pause to love it!)... (Your name), it is not how well I perform! Instead of that I am...building yourselves up on your most holy faith (Jude 1:20); And, my confidence is in You to do what You say Lord because I...have boldness and confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12). (pause to feel confidence from it!)... (Your name), I am not holding back because I am commanded to...draw near with confidence to the throne of grace... (Heb. 4:16). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), rather than daydreaming of earthly glories it is by faith that I can do what David did when he said, I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. (Psa. 16:8); And...God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16).... (Your name), I am confident and secure because I can receive God s presence by His grace! IT IS WRITTEN:...the one who has entered [God s] rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His (Heb. 4:10); Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls (Mat. 11:28,29). (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)

54 Changing from Performance to Grace 54...Heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to be afraid about not being able to achieve God s presence. I turn from letting Christians put that kind of pressure on me. I grab my soul and I turn it away from having to come to God by faith in my works... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to feel God s presence in order to measure up to the standards of other Christians. Lord You are the standard. I turn and I rest from having to achieve Your Presence Lord I just set my heart to love the God of heaven, who I am trusting is close......heart, delight that I don t have to let the pressure of getting and having material things to be what holds me back from God. Instead of that, I set my heart to love getting and having You Lord. And, I love that it is right for me to receive the kingdom like a branch drinks and to possess You as my God......I don t have to be spiritually distracted by needing approval from people. I am depending on You Lord. You are the God that I love to please. And Lord, I love that my faith causes You pleasure (Heb 11:1,6)......I grab my soul and I turn it away from pressure to perform in order to experience God s presence. My confidence is in the truth about You Lord I will NOT fear failure because Your Word is worthy of my complete trust. By faith in God to do what He says, I am believing that God s presence is here all around me and that He is touching me because of HIS grace... (pause to believe)... (Your name), because God has done it I rest believing that I am one who has Jesus Christ and the Father also (1 John 2:23). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), because God is doing it I am one who has fellowship with the Father and the Son I am trusting God for His Light to be continually shined upon me (1 John 1:3; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 1:5).... (Your name), because God has done it I am a kingdom priest to God and a priest to other people on God s behalf (1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 1:6). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name), I submit into being confident that...none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned (Psa. 34:22). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace. (Rom. 11:6). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name), I set my heart to confidence about believing because...they were not able to enter because of unbelief (Heb. 3:19). And,...he who comes to God must believe...that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. (Heb. 11:6). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure because IT IS WRITTEN: Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance. (Isa. 55:1,2);... (Your name), IT IS WRITTEN: I, the Lord, am your God...Open your mouth wide and I will fill it. (Psa. 81:10);...has He spoken, and will He not make it good? (Num. 23:19);...My people will be satisfied with My goodness, declares the Lord. (Jer. 31:14). (pause to believe and love God and His kingdom here!)... (Your name), let yourself love the closeness of God. Lord, You are...my rock and my fortress. (Psa. 71:3). You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114). (pause to believe and love the truth!)

55 Changing from Performance to Grace 55...Heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to let other people define what it means to be a sucessful Christian. Lord, I trust Your word. I rest into drawing near to You and I rest into letting You draw near to me because it is right (James 4:8)... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by the closeness of God and His kingdom!)...heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to put pressure on myself to perform spiritually for those I love. I rest and I trust in You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to try to feel God s presence because of pressure from the religious culture around me. Lord I love that I can trust You to carry me closer. You are the God who quenches my thirst I have nothing else but You... (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...i don t have to I put my faith in the experience of other people. I turn and will trust the truth in the Bible about drinking from God. It is right and good for me to draw near... (pause to feel reassured by it!)...i don t have to perform for other Christians because that doesn t justify me before God. I turn from having to prove myself to them. God is my glory not what other Christians think about me......i don t have to be afraid because of how thirsty I am for God. He doesn t hold back. I turn from fear because I don t have to trust myself I don t have to perform for God. Lord I rest in You......I don t have to be afraid about entering before the Lord. I turn my soul to rest confidently in God. Lord I trust I am drawing near but I put my faith in You to carry me close. God doesn t hold back......i grab my soul and I turn it away from pressure to perform to experience God s presence. My confidence is in You Lord I will NOT fear failure. I am boldly confident about God s grace and provision for me to draw near and for Him to draw near to me. I believe that I am near and that God is here... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)... (Your name), I turn from fear because God will not abandon His people: God says to me that...i will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you, (Heb. 13:5). (pause to believe and love God who is close!)...the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls. (1 Peter 2:25). (pause to feel confidence from it!)... (Your name), I love that I can trust God!...the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name... (1 Sam. 12:22). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure because...those who know Your name will put their trust in You, for You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You. (Psa. 9:10). (pause to hear it)... (Your name), heart hear this stop fighting against the truth and let yourself believe it!...he will not fail you... (Deut. 4:31). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I am secure because...the Lord will not abandon His people, nor will He forsake [us, as] His inheritance. (Psa. 94:14). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I am confident because God is my inheritance God is my portion in this land (Num. 18:20; Deut. 18:2). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

56 Changing from Performance to Grace 56...Heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to make pleasing others to be my god. The Lord is my God not other Christians, not members of my family, not my co-workers, not my pastor. I turn and rest into faith that believes God to draw near to me because that is what pleases Him (Heb 11:6)......I don t have to agree with pressure to achieve spirituality that would let me draw near. Lord I love that I don t have to put my faith in works. I turn and I trust Your grace. I love You Lord... (pause to hear it)...i don t have to measure up to the unspoken spiritual standards in the Christian culture around me. The Lord is my God I love You Lord, not the standards other Christians want me to live up to......i turn from fear of failure. I reject pressure to perform spiritually. Experiencing God is about confidence in You Lord NOT in myself. I am confident about God s grace and provision for me to draw near and for Him to draw near to me. I am boldly believing that I am near and that God is here... (pause to let yourself feel confidence, be reassured, and love God s presence!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure because IT IS WRITTEN: Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8). And, God promised with an...everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants... (Gen. 17:7; and also Gal. 3:29). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I rest in the truth because My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. (Ezek. 37:27);...the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Rom. 12:2). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...the tabernacle of God is among men... (Rev. 21:3);...God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16)....the fountain of living water, even the Lord. (Jer. 17:13). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I experience God because I set my heart to find a safe refuge of strength in His presence: How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; and You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. (Psa. 36:7-9)... (Your name), I am confident and secure in directing my heart to glory in God, because IT IS WRITTEN:...the nations will bless themselves in Him, and in Him they will glory. (Jer. 4:2)... (Your name), I CAN enter and stay before the Lord because O Lord, I love the habitation of Your house and the place where Your glory dwells. (Psa. 26:8); and because it says,...where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Mat. 6:21). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I am confident about experiencing God here because...god is Light...if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another... (1 John 1:5,7). The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. (2 Cor. 13:14); God is spirit... (John 4:24);...the Lord is the Spirit... (2 Cor. 3:17).... (Your name), I am confident and secure about experiencing the fullness of God because Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8); God is not a man, that He should lie... (Num. 23:19). 'See, the Lord your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession...do not fear or be dismayed.' (Deut. 1:21); God is to us a God of deliverances... (Psa. 68:20). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

57 Heart-Training Core Classes for Your Heart Group Four...let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God... (Hebrews 13:15). to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:12). Most important... While Heart-training is a form of prayer that God listens to, it should be aimed primarily toward the ears of our heart. Speak these statements out loud even though it may be uncomfortable to do so. Determine that you are going to get yourself to hear the truth. That you REST into believing may be more important than any other single factor in our effectiveness at directing our affections and pursuits toward God. Heart-training that is effective must be done assertively and with a conscious intent to listen and hear what we are saying. Speak these things with great joy in your tone of voice. Your heart may not feel joy at the moment but the truth in the heart-training statements are worthy of joy. Since the statements are true it is honest to speak it with joy even if your heart isn t feeling it at the moment. The importance of delight in your tone of voice cannot be over emphasized. Heart-training with a tone of joy in your voice is key to what will give the breakthrough that you desire. Lord God, I delight that I don t have to achieve what I need apart from You! I delight to humble myself from having to earn or deserve Your presence. I rest into believing the scriptures. I delight that You have given me access to the Father. You have made a way for me to enter the throne room, stand before You, and glory in Your presence! I rest into receiving Your Holy Spirit. Your presence is my righteousness, my good, my security, my confidence. I set my heart to love You Lord! Caution: Don t expect that you need to master any of these sections before you move on to the next. That will only make it harder for you to direct your heart toward God. Let all of these sections work together. When you have trouble hearing and believing one of the sections, another section may help you to have breakthrough. Then when you go back and focus again on what was difficult earlier, you may find it a lot easier to believe and live. Say the statements out loud and listen to what you are saying until your heart hears, believes, and loves the truth. Keep moving in the heart-training unless you feel God directing you to stay in one section for a while. Barry Hall 2011

58 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 58 Barry Hall You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the security I NEED is......not from how well I stay in control. Heart, it is a far better security for me to trust the closeness of God......not from how well I avoid rocking the boat. Security is NOT from how well I accept mediocrity......not changed by people who try to intimidate or hurt me! They can t hurt my security because God is with me here. And, it is heaven that rules... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...not by how well I use words to put other people down. And, my security is NOT by sarcastic laughter that hurts other people. Heart, security from God is realistic for me! My place of security is to enter and standing before the God of the armies of heaven with angels are all around me. I love You Lord......not by my getting even with those who hurt me. Vengeance belongs to God. And, God s presence is safer and far more thrilling; my God is the Lord of hosts... (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...not the power I feel when putting myself down. The Lord is God not me. I love that God draws close with His power all around me. And, I love that my God is...the head over all rule and authority (Gal 2:10)......not from the smiles I get from other people. I love the radiance shining onto me from Your face God is my security. I love standing before the Lord and having His kingdom all around me here......i turn away from having to achieve security for myself. I rest into trusting the abundant grace of God to draw near. By faith, I trust that I am entering with my body and soul before God. By this, I am receiving the Holy Spirit that radiates from the fountain of God. I am trusting that my eyes are looking at the presence of the kingdom of God all around me here: Lord,...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5). My safe refuge is inside God s presence (Your name), The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? (Psa. 27:1). My God is a shield of light around me that makes evil and darkness flee! Jesus said to the Father,...Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one (John 18:9).... (Your name), God has made me a descendent and heir of the promises made to Abraham (Gal. 3:29); Therefore heart,...remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day (Deu 8:18).... (Your name), I turn my heart to love God as my security; The eternal God is a dwelling place... (Deut. 33:27); God is my strong fortress... (2 Sam 22:33). My God is a fortress of strength and miracle power all around me;...let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God... (Heb. 13:15). (pause to praise Him!)... (Your name), I am secure because I am making God my refuge. Lord You are...a refuge for me, a tower of strength...let me dwell in Your tent forever; let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings... (Psa. 61:3,4). When I draw near to God, He draws near, surrounding me as a refuge of strength and love (Your name), even Though the fig tree should not blossom and there be no fruit on the vines, though the yield of the olive should fail and the fields produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold and there be no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He has made my feet like hinds' feet, and makes me walk on my high places. (Hab. 3:17-19). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

59 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 59...Thank You Lord, and (Your name), let your heart delight that the security I NEED is......not in soothing myself with how nice I am to people. It is the closeness of God that soothes me. Lord, I love that I can receive Your presence like a sponge. And, I am trusting that You are a fountain of love and goodness right in front of me here... (pause to be soothed, receive like your whole body is a sponge!)...not how impressive I am in conversations with people. And, my security is NOT from how well I defended myself verbally. God is my defender. Lord, I praise You not myself. And Lord, I delight that it is my birthright as a believer to confidently trust that the God who is walking with me is the risen and glorified Jesus. Heart, He IS before me here right now. By faith, my eyes are looking to You Lord......not by how well I manipulate relationships people. I turn from twisted forms of human power. I love Your power Lord. When I draw near, God draws near to me and He is my refuge of power and strength......not found in rebelling against the truth about God. It is safe for me to trust that God is good and be near to Him. And, it is safe to trust that my God is the Almighty commander of all of heaven s angels......not from the religious culture that surrounds me. Lord, I worship Your power not theirs. All my security is in trusting that You are my powerful refuge. By faith, I trust that I am looking at You Lord......not from getting more money or from having money in my pocket. God is the possession I treasure. I rest into receiving the closeness of Your presence Lord.. (pause to receive His presence like a sponge!)...not from how much I do or the projects I complete. Heart, my security is NOT from my competence......not from how much I know. I rest into receiving the presence of God as my strong security. I put my trust in You Lord. Thank You Lord! (pause to feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...i turn my heart away from security that can decrease because of people or the circumstances. And I humble myself from pride because it only wants to feed on the glory of earthly things. I rest into receiving God s presence. And, I grab my soul and I turn it from doubt. God is my security!... (Your name), God is not asking me to give up anything that He hasn t also promised to replace it with something far better:...repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:19). And,...the Lord will not abandon His people, nor will He forsake [us as] His inheritance. (Psa. 94:14). Thank You Lord! (pause to enjoy it!)... (Your name), I am secure because God is with me here. My Jesus Christ is wisdom for me. My Jesus is righteousness for me. My Jesus is sanctification for me. My Jesus is redemption for me. What I am inside Christ, I am by His doing (1 Cor. 1:30). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), I am secure because God is my confidence; The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war arise against me...i shall be confident. One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple. For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock (Psa. 27:1 and 3,4,5). God is my refuge of strong security, beauty, and light...(pause to love it!)

60 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 60...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the security I NEED is......not from my dominance compared to others. Heart, my security is NOT decreased because of the skills of others around me. The closeness of God is my security! I love that my God is the commander of a vast army of angels and I am setting my heart to trust that His angels are all around me here. Thank You Lord......not from using self-contempt as a tool to keep me from opening up to the Lord. God is a better way to find security. Thank You Lord that You are my strong security.. (pause to believe and love the truth!)...not from using laziness as a tool for holding back from God. The Lord is my good and powerful refuge. I turn my heart to love You Lord. I love that my God is the Almighty commander of heaven s angels......not from how well I keep people liking me. The approval and pleasure of God feeds me better. Lord, I face toward You. And, Lord I am trusting that my faith causes You to feel pleasure (Heb 11:6)... (pause to let yourself enjoy being able to cause God to feel pleasure by your faith and dependance!)...not from the sympathy I get from people. God soothes me better His presence is easier to receive and much more abundant. Thank You Lord! I love Your grace to draw near to me... (pause to enjoy it!)...not from how well I hide in a cave of doubt or fear. God is a far safer place to hide because of His power and strength that comes close to me. It is heaven that rules! I will not be afraid... (pause to love the truth!)...not from how much money I have for. God is my provider. I praise God that You are a wonderful provider. I love You Lord. By faith, I trust that my eyes are looking at You Lord. And, I turn my ears to listen to the Holy Spirit in me, and who comes onto me intensely from the fountain......the security I love is NOT from pride in myself. I love the security that comes from the powerful and miracle working presence of God with me. I CAN find safe refuge in God because when I draw near, He draws near to me by bringing the kingdom of heaven with Him all around me here (Your name),...none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned. (Psa. 34:22). God says that...the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. (John 6:37); Lord, You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114);..You are my refuge in the day of disaster. (Jer. 17:17); Guard my soul...for I take refuge in You. (Psa. 25:20). Thank You Lord that You are so gracious to draw near and be my God! Heart, love the Lord because His closeness is my strong and powerful refuge of love and kindness.... (Your name), be determined to rest confidently into faith that allows me to enter and stand before the Lord. Heart, love the Holy Spirit surrounding me because by this, the presence of God becomes my refuge of security. I CAN receive the presence of God because the fountain that thunders and roars floods me intensely with the Holy Spirit all around... (pause to enjoy the security of God s closeness!)... (Your name), God has made me a descendent and heir of the promises made to Abraham (Gal. 3:29); Therefore heart,...remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day (Deu 8:18).... (Your name), God is...my rock and my fortress. (Psa. 71:3); I WILL trust that God draws near because God has promised with an...everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants... (Gen. 17:7; and Gal. 3:29). Lord,...You are my help and my deliverer... (Psa. 40:17). Thank You Lord!

61 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 61...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the security I NEED is......not from a fortress of self-inflicted guilt and shame. God is my strong and powerful fortress not because of my doing things to earn it but because of my trusting His grace... (let yourself love Him!)...not by my trying to have people around me all the time. I thrill my heart with the closeness of God. And, I am trusting God to be near. Thank You Lord! Your power and love ARE here God...(pause to enjoy it!)...not by my trying to keep people saying or doing things that make me feel secure. I love the closeness of God s power to make me secure. My God is the commander of all of heaven s angels......not by my stretching the truth to impress others. God s glory is greater. And, the God of all glory is with me here! Lord, I receive Your radiant Presence like I am a sponge in front of a mighty and gushing fountain. Lord, I love Your Holy Spirit all around me here. I love the personality of God who is with me......not from how much my money can buy. God is my provider. Lord, I am believing that Your presence with me and that Your kingdom around me are more real than money and more wonderful than all the things money can buy. Lord, You are my security, YOU are my provider. I love You Lord......not from using foul language. The kingdom of God is far more impressive! I humble my heart into loving and receiving the Kingdom of God all around me here like a sponge in front of a fountain. I love You Lord. And, I am trusting that the kingdom of God is here in the miracle power and authority of God... (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...i turn away from thinking that my security can decrease because of the circumstances, or people, or anything else. I set my heart to trust the closeness of God as my security! My delight is in God. And I rest in His presence by resting the weight of my entire being, like I were holding a coat onto me by letting the pockets support the weight of my hands and arms... (pause to rest in Him!)... (Your name), I...receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal 3:14);...it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace... (Rom. 4:16). Thank You Lord! I am believing that I am receiving Your Holy Spirit coming to me from the fountain of Your grace and goodness Lord.... (Your name), I...have boldness and confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12). By faith in Him I am trusting the scripture that says, Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8).... (Your name), I set my heart to love the closeness of God and His kingdom here! Lord, I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust! (Psa. 91:2); You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness and touch of God s power and glory!)... (Your name), make it your delight that...your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. (Luke 12:32). I have drawn near to God and God does draw near to me because IT IS WRITTEN,...God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16).... (Your name),...the word of the Lord is tested; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him. (2 Sam 22:31). Lord, I love You as my refuge because Your Holy Spirit is all around me touching me with Your love and goodness. And Lord, You are a shield of power and strength around me... (pause to enjoy Him!)

62 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 62...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the security I NEED is......not from power or pride in being able to hurt someone. And, my security is NOT from the respect I get. The closeness of God s power is MY strength and security. Heart, delight that...it is Heaven that rules. (Dan. 4:26), NOT me... (pause to love the closeness of God and enjoy the security of His closeness!)...not by dominance or pride that comes from lust or sexual sin. Lord, I turn to You and praise You. Lord, You are MY strength and security. I love YOU Lord... (pause to let yourself love and enjoy God!)...not from being on drugs. Rather than loving the drugged feeling, I am purposing myself into believing the presence of God as my security and pleasure. I love having the kingdom of heaven around me here......not by soothing myself with what I smoke. And heart, my security is NOT from the feelings of power and control there is in smoking. I set my heart to love soothing myself with God s presence. Heart, enjoy God s presence quieting and calming yourself! It is the closeness of God and HIS power that I love. Lord, You are MY power and strength. I worship YOU Lord, not myself... (pause to feel soothed and calmed!)...not in deadening my pain by drinking alcohol. Drawing close to God and drinking like a sponge from the fountain fills me better. Heart, love drinking from the fountain of God s goodness and beauty.....not from the power and control there is in drinking alcohol. It is God s power that I love. I love that I can drown myself in Your presence Lord. I don t have to hold back and I won t. God s power and sovereignty IS here and when I draw near to God, the kingdom of God comes all around me here......not from the power and control that could keep me on drugs. I humble myself from finding security that way. Heart, I am humbling myself into confident faith for entering and receiving heaven here......the Lord is God not me. I grab my soul and turn it from trusting myself. I humble myself from the pride that tries to find security apart from God. And, I humble myself into confident faith for drawing near and letting God draw near to me. (Your name), let God be your God! Hide yourself by wearing the strong and powerful armor of the presence of God (Your name), I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely. (Psa. 16:8,9)....God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God and His kingdom!)... (Your name), I am secure and I am confident because I draw near to God and He draws near to me (James 4:8). Lord by Your presence here, You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114);...You are my refuge in the day of disaster. (Jer. 17:17). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), by making God my refuge it says that I possess heaven HERE: he who takes refuge in Me...will possess My holy mountain. (Isa. 57:13). And, God has promised that...the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. (John 6:37). (pause to believe and love the closeness of God!)... (Your name), I put my trust in the presence of God in me and around me, The eternal God is a dwelling place... (Deut. 33:27), I set my heart to trust God to draw near to me and be a safe refuge of love and goodness around me. Guard my soul...for I take refuge in You. (Psa. 25:20). (pause to enjoy it!)

63 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 63...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the security I NEED is......not from believing lies about power of evil. The power and love of God is far stronger. And by faith, I am trusting that I am abiding IN His love... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by it!)...not from how well I stay in control. Heart, my security is NOT from subtle demands to control my relationship with God! Security from God IS realistic for me! Heart, security from God is what I love......not from the power and control there is in holding back from God. The closeness of God s power and love is a far better way to find security. The Lord is a strong refuge of goodness and love around me here......not by my trying to escape from confidence to receive the Holy Spirit and glory in God. Lord, I love Your grace. I set my heart to trust that I am before the Lord, angels are all around me. And the God I love is the commander of all the angels. The God who is close is all powerful and strong. God is my security......not by my being afraid of the Holy Spirit and protecting myself from God. Lord, I love hiding myself in You. I draw near to God and He draws near as a strong refuge of acceptance and love.. (pause to enjoy it!)...not in how well I avoid the throne room of God. It is safe for me to trust God and draw near. I love that it is good for me to love and believe that God is with me here right now. All my security is in You Lord......not by making God do what I want. Lord, I praise You who are close. It is what You control that makes me secure... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...i turn away from thinking my security can decrease because of the circumstances, or people, or anything else. God is my security! God s presence is a far more powerful security my delight is in the closeness of God all around me here. I turn my eyes toward God. By faith, I trust I am looking at His power and glory around me here: Lord,...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5). (pause to let yourself feel reassured by God s presence!)... (Your name), I have determined to believe that I do...have boldness and confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12); I...have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus...draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean and our bodies washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:19, 22). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name), The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread...though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident (Psa. 27:1,3). (pause to hear and love the truth!)... (Your name), God has made me His child (1 John 3:2). And, God has made me a descendent and heir of the promises made to Abraham (Gal. 3:29); Therefore heart,...remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day (Deu 8:18). And, God has promised with an...everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants... (Gen. 17:7; and also Gal. 3:29). (be thankful and trust God for this truth!)... (Your name), IT IS WRITTEN: Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the one fighting for you (Deut. 3:22). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)

64 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 64...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the security I NEED is......not from the power, rebellion, and control there is in choosing to sin. I rest into submitting to God as my God. And, I turn my heart to love Him more than the twisted power and rebellion in sin......not from my being in control of my surroundings or people. Lord, I love Your closeness as my security. I praise You. And, I rest into believing that I am before the Lord, angels are all around me. And the God I love is the commander of all the angels... (pause to let yourself feel confidence from it!)...not from lowering myself into despair or laziness. God is my great reason for hope. I repent of drinking from a cup of disbelief or despair. By faith I am turning toward the Lord and am drinking from Him......not from praising myself for how well I use force to demand that the circumstances cooperate. Lord, I praise You... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not by my nagging people into submission. God is my righteousness and my security not me, or them......not by punishing others around me when I feel like a failure. Lord, I love that I can thrill myself with Your perfection... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not by lies that cover up part of the truth. Lies are not my security. I love hiding myself in God s presence. I delight my heart into believing and loving that I can enter the throne room and that the fountain of God is right in front of me now... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i love the security that comes from the presence of God with me. God hides me inside His kingdom, inside a kingdom that is not of this realm, nor of this world. I love taking refuge in the strength, miracle working power, and in the beauty of the kingdom of God all around me here (Your name), Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8); And, IT IS WRITTEN that I have...confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12). I WILL believe it! And, he who takes refuge in Me...will possess My holy mountain (Isa. 57:13). So, it is right for me to confidently believe that the kingdom of God IS all around me here (Your name), by trusting that I am before the Lord, He shines His power and authority all around me from the fountain of God. And it is right for me to say, The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? (Psa. 27:1);...put on the armor of light...put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts. (Rom. 13:12, 14).... (Your name), You Lord!...You have been a refuge for me, a tower of strength...let me dwell in Your tent forever; let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings... (Psa. 61:3,4). (pause to hear it)...the word of the Lord is tested; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him. (2 Sam 22:31). Lord, You are my hiding place... (Psa. 32:7). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name),...in repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength... (Isa. 30:15)....clothe yourselves with humility... (1 Peter 5:5) The eternal God is a dwelling place... (Deut. 33:27); I love You Lord and...my soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8). I love that my God is a strong and miracle working refuge of love, acceptance, and goodness... (pause to love and to enjoy the closeness of God and His kingdom all around you here!)

65 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 65...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the security I NEED is......not by retreating into my mind and trying to figure things out. Lord, I love the understanding that You give. Lord, lead me in the questions I ask. And, by faith I am listening to the Holy Spirit in me and who comes to me by my standing before the fountain of God... (pause to let yourself enjoy and love God!)...not from how well I protect myself from the risk of pain. It is safer to stand before the Lord of hosts and trust that the kingdom of heaven is all around me here. Thank You Lord! I love that You ARE here.....not in feeding myself with how much I know I don t know it all. I feed on the closeness of my allknowing God. Heart, I am determined that I will love and delight in God, and not in myself... (love Him!)...not from analyzing it more. I submit into believing that all my security is in You Lord......not from how well I understand. I can try to understand, but God is my security. Lord, I praise You who are close to me. I am trusting that Angels are here, that I am before the Lord and He is before me here......not from the doctrines I believe. God alone is right He is my right-ness. By faith I am trusting that I am looking at the glory and power and wisdom of my God. And, the Lord is perfecting my faith......not in making my mind a place of refuge. Lord, I love Your grace that lets me make Your presence my refuge of power and love. Thank You Lord.. Your closeness is my delight... (pause to delight in God!)...not in my figuring out why. I rest into receiving the touch of God s presence as my security. Lord, I love that You are a strong refuge of miracle working power... (pause to love Him!)...I turn away from thinking my security can decrease because of the circumstances, or people, or anything else. God is my security! God s presence is a far more powerful security my delight is in God because the kingdom of God around me is my strong refuge of power, acceptance, and love (Your name), I have...confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12). My faith is in Jesus for my being able to come before the Father, and when I trust I am drawing near, He carries me into the throne room; Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, He spread His wings and caught them, He carried them on His pinions. The Lord alone guided him, and there was no foreign god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field; and He made him suck honey from the rock, and oil from the flinty rock, (Deut. 32:11-13). (believe it)... (Your name), God has made me a descendent and heir of the promises made to Abraham (Gal. 3:29); Therefore heart,...remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day (Deu 8:18).... (Your name), delight in the Lord and say strongly to Him, I love You, O Lord... (Psa. 18:1).... God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul. (Psa. 54:4). I love that God wants me to stay near to Him so much that He is planting me in His presence (Exo. 15:17); The eternal God is a dwelling place... (Deut. 33:27). (pause to love it!)... (Your name), love the Lord because God has made me free from sin and a slave of righteousness (Rom. 6:18). God has made me free from the control of man (1 Cor. 9:19 Amp. Bible). (pause believe and love God!)

66 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 66...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the security I NEED is......not from my accepting blame for what others do wrong. Approval from God is stronger than disapproval from people. Lord, I love that You are my refuge of comfort and acceptance... (pause to enjoy God!)...not from giving up for fear of not being able to maintain success. Success for me is to...continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God... (Heb. 13:15), sacrificing praise with worship that normally would have been inner praise toward myself. Heart, delight that success and meaning for me is living life, to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory. (Eph. 1:12), and NOT to the praise of my glory......not from how well I hide in a cave of fear. God has granted me access into His presence. I hide myself in the radiance around God who is with me here. The eternal and powerful God is my refuge of security.....not from my staying in control. Lord God, I praise You that You are a strong place of security. I love You Lord. I set my heart to rest into believing that I am before the Lord and angels are all around me......not from the sympathy that bad health earns. Sympathy from people is nothing compared to what God offers freely... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from acceptance I earn because of physical pain I feel. God s acceptance is by faith in the truth about His grace... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i don't have to believe the enemies lies that I have to get the security I NEED apart from You. Lord, You are my security. I rebuke any enemy pushing me to keep protecting myself apart from a wall that is Your presence around me. I denounce these things! And Lord, I ask that with Your authority and power You would command the forces of evil to leave me alone and to never come back (pause to let yourself believe that He is doing it)......i don t have to be God to myself. I delight to turn, draw near, and receive the Holy Spirit radiating powerfully the fountain of God. Lord, I love Your presence as my security given freely by God s grace... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)... (Your name),...it is Heaven that rules. (Dan. 4:26)....My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped... (Psa. 28:7). So, ignite your love toward God and let your delight feel freedom because, The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield and...my stronghold. (Psa. 18:2)... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and love God who is close!)... (Your name), God is...my rock and my fortress. (Psa. 71:3); Heart hear this: Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the one fighting for you. (Deut. 3:22); My God is far stronger than the enemy and my God surrounds me here. Heart, love the truth because My help comes from the Lord... (Psa. 121:2) (Your name), One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord...For in the day of trouble He will conceal me...in the secret place...he will hide me... (Psa. 27:4-5). (pause to feel reassured by it!)... (Your name), God will win! Evil will be judged (Luke 19:27). God is not a man, that He should lie... (Num. 23:19)....has He spoken, and will He not make it good? (Num. 23:19). My Jesus said to the Father,...Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one (John 18:9). Thank You Lord... (pause to love God!)

67 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 67...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the security I NEED is......not from my telling people I don t want to talk about it. My security is from God. I rest into receiving from the fountain of God like a sponge. And by my trusting God to draw near, I take refuge in Him......not from how well I protect myself by disbelief. Faith in the power and closeness of God is my best hope for security. I love being able to stay before the Lord and have angels all around me here......not by my subtle demands for justice from God. I repent of trying to feel power that way. Thank You Lord! I love that when you draw near to me, You bring Your kingdom all around me here... (love God!)...not from finding out if people approve of me. It is God s acceptance and approval that makes me secure. I praise You God.. I love that by God s grace, I can receive His presence and I am comforted and soothed inside a strong refuge of God s acceptance and love...(pause to feel confident and to love and enjoy God!)...not by how well I cower and close up inside. Lord God, I love that it is safe to draw near and stand open before You. Heart, the fountain of God is before me here and I drink from Him like a sponge... (enjoy it!)...not by my throwing something and feeding on the power I feel. God s power is greater and God is here. I feed on You God. Heaven that rules! And I am resting in faith that the Lord of hosts is before me here......not from money. God is the possession I hold close. I praise You Lord that the security You provide is so much better. I am determined to work hard, but I love that You are my provider God... (love Him!)...I love the security that comes from the presence of God with me. God hides me in His kingdom. It is a kingdom that is more real than the material world around me... (pause to feel reassured by it!)... (Your name), my security is not dependant on me or my circumstances! Lord, You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114); I love You, O Lord... (Psa. 18:1). When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You. In God, whose word I praise, in God I have put my trust; I shall not be afraid. What can mere man do to me? (Psa. 56:3,4); Thank You Lord that...it is Heaven that rules. (Dan. 4:26). I love You being close to me Lord... (pause to enjoy God!)... (Your name), Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; (Rom. 10:33). Thank You Lord that Your presence is a strong refuge of Your love and acceptance all around me (Your name), Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident. (Psa. 27:3). I cried out to You, O Lord; I said, You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. (Psa. 142:5). Lord, You are my God and I love You (Your name), God has made me a descendent and heir of the promises made to Abraham (Gal. 3:29); Therefore heart,...remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day (Deu 8:18).... (Your name), Many are saying of my soul, there is no deliverance for him in God...But You, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the one who lifts my head. (Psa. 3:2,3). I love You Lord! even though,...my foes will rejoice when I fall...i trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. (Psa. 13:5 NIV); Heart,...I have hope in Him. (Lam. 3:24). God is my strong fortress... (2 Sam 22:33).

68 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 68...Thank You Lord! And, heart believe and love the truth!... (Your name), trust that you are facing toward the Lord because blessing, grace, and peace come to you from the shine of His face. Heart hear this: The Lord bless you...the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. (Num. 6:24-26 NIV).... (Your name),...the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His... (2 Chron. 16:9). Praise the Lord, O my soul! (Psa. 146:1).... (Your name), God has given me everything that pertains to life and godliness. By His promises I have become a partaker of His nature (2 Pet. 1:3,4). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)... (Your name), God didn t spare His own Son. So, I can be confident about His freely giving me all things (Rom. 8:32). (let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), it is safe and good for me to fully trust God because...the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Rom. 12:2). (pause to hear, believe, and love God!)... (Your name),...the Lord is a God of justice; how blessed are all those who long for Him. (Isa. 30:18). (pause to let yourself enjoy being blessed because of this truth!)... (Your name), even when the wicked seem more blessed, I remember that...these are the wicked; and always at ease, they have increased in wealth...when I pondered to understand this, it was troublesome in my sight until I came into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end. (Psa. 73:12,16,17).... (Your name), I set my heart to find delight in trusting God s loving presence as my strong security! I love You, O Lord... (Psa. 18:1);...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8). I am determined to love Your closeness and to ignite my love for You with greater joy and thankfulness all the time.... (Your name), You will not be afraid of the terror by night, or of the arrow that flies by day; of the pestilence...or of the destruction...it shall not approach you...for you have made the Lord...even the Most High, your dwelling place (Psa. 91:5-9). Heart, believe and be thankful that the Most High God is a strong and powerful dwelling place all around me here. Praise the Lord, O my soul! (Psa. 146:1)... (Your name), I am secure and I am confident because Lord,...You are my refuge in the day of disaster. (Jer. 17:17). The eternal God is a dwelling place... (Deut. 33:27); I...cried out to You, O Lord; I said, You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. (Psa. 142:5). (let yourself be thankful and enjoy!)... (Your name), I am determined that I will not be negligent about standing before the Lord (2Chron. 29:11). Like Elijah and Elisha, I am (your name) who stands before the Lord. Heart, believe and love that God is before me HERE (1 Kings 17:1; 18:5; 2 Kings 3:14). (let yourself feel confidence because of this truth!)... (Your name), I am secure and I am confident because the loving and strong presence of God is all around me HERE: The Spirit of God makes me one with the Father and the Son the person of God is in me; I am in Him because I stand before the glorified Christ and am receiving His presence here (Gal. 3:28; John 15:4; 17:20,21; 10:30; 10:38; Eph. 4:4,6; Col. 2:6). (pause to let yourself be thankful and feel secure because of God!)... (Your name), God has made me His child (1 John 3:2); God has made me a descendent and heir of the promises made to Abraham (Gal. 3:29); God has made me an offspring of Israel who will glory in God (Isa. 45:25). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory and love!)

69 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Security 69...Thank You Lord! And, heart believe and love the truth!... (Your name), God has made me His child (1 John 3:2). God has adopted me and He is my Daddy who is very good (Gal. 4:4-7). And, God has made me a descendent and heir of the promises made to Abraham (Gal. 3:29); Therefore heart,...remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day (Deu 8:18). (pause to be thankful and to trust God to be true to His word!)... (Your name), God lives in me and when I draw near to God He draws near and walks along with me (James 4:8; 2 Cor. 6:16). And, I...receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken... (Heb. 12:28). The kingdom of God comes to me with power: O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary...god... Himself gives strength and power to the people... (Psa. 68:35). (pause to be thankful and love the kingdom of God!)... (Your name), You will not be afraid of the terror by night, or of the arrow that flies by day; of the pestilence...or of the destruction...it shall not approach you...for you have made the Lord...even the Most High, your dwelling place (Psa. 91:5-9). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... (Your name),...the Lord gives grace and glory; no good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly. (Psa. 84:11). I...have made the Lord, my refuge, even the Most High, [my] dwelling place. No evil will befall [me], nor will any plague come near [my] tent. (Psalm 91:9,10). (pause to love it!)... (Your name), I am confident and secure because God can do all things through me God is my strength (Phil. 4:13)....My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped... (Psa. 28:7). (pause to enjoy God!)... (Your name), God is,...the God of all grace... (1 Peter 5:11). And,...the Lord longs to be gracious to you, and therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you... (Isa. 30:18)....the Lord loves His people... (2 Chron. 2:11);...the Lord takes pleasure in His people... (Psa. 149:4);...great is your love toward me... (Psa. 86:13 NIV). And, I am made confident by Your being my strong refuge of miracle working power.... (Your name), Jesus Christ is stronger in me and He is greater than any demonic enemy (1 John 4:4). God has made me a good soldier of Christ (2 Tim. 2:3). And, the God of peace will crush Satan under my feet (Rom. 16:20). So Lord, I humble myself into being strong because of You. And, I praise You, not myself.... (Your name), my God makes me to leap over walls and run upon enemy troops (Psa. 18:29). God has made me like a majestic horse in the time of battle (Zec. 10:3). My praise is toward You God, not myself.... (Your name), I have made the presence of God my sun and my shield and because of this, God doesn t hold back His grace or His glory from me (Psa. 84:11). Heart the Bible says of God that...those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You. (Psa. 9:10). And IT IS WRITTEN,...I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you, (Heb. 13:5).... (Your name), I CAN Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8). Therefore, I CAN...put on the armor of light...put on the Lord Jesus Christ... (Rom. 13:12 and 14) Lord, You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name),...say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust! (Psa. 91:2). He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust! For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings you may seek refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark (Psa. 91:1-4). (pause to enjoy God as refuge!)

70 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Reassurance 70 Barry Hall You Lord! And, (Your name), delight that the reassurance I NEED is......not from having people around me all the time. And, I am determined to find the reassurance I need because of trusting God to draw near and bring the kingdom of heaven around me here. I love You God......not from how much I get honor, praise, acceptance, or respect. I turn my heart from loving reassurance from self-directed praise. And, I set my heart to enjoy that God is greatly honored by my worship toward Him. My praise and worship toward God has a vast audience of angels, apostles and prophets, rulers, and authorities in heaven. My worship and praise toward God has value and meaning that lasts for eternity......not from soothing myself with the sin. My God is a refuge of love and acceptance that soothes me best......not in the approval I sense from other people. I have the approval of God because of my faith and my faith gives Him pleasure. I turn my heart to love the pleasure that my faith causes God to feel (Heb 11:1,2,6)......not in power and control from rebellion. I am training my heart to enjoy being thrilled with the closeness of God s power and sovereignty around me here. Heart, it is heaven that rules! I am trusting that Jesus is before me here. Angels are all around. And, each of them have personality and roles in the kingdom......not from my getting and having more money. It is far better to love receiving and to enjoy having God s presence close. Lord, I am trusting that my eyes are looking at You... (pause to believe and love the truth!)...not from how well I protect myself by being cynical or angry. Instead of that, I set my heart to trust Your closeness as my protection and reassurance Lord. I love Your closeness as a refuge around me of love, goodness, and acceptance. I turn to You God and I love You Lord... (pause to feel reassured!)...circumstances, people, or the demonic can t rob me of my being reassured; my reassurance is because God is here with me! I am depending on You God. Lord, I am trusting that my eyes are looking at the presence of the kingdom of God all around me here: Lord,...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5).... (Your name), listen and let yourself be reassured by loving this truth!...jesus is a fountain of the Holy Spirit because He is still receiving...the Spirit...who proceeds from the Father... (John 15:26). And, by my drawing near to receive the Spirit who pours out from Him, the Holy Spirit pours out through me also (Joh 7:37-39, Isa 41:17,18)......O Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5);...You, O Lord, are...my glory... (Psa. 3:3 TAB);...confidence...is...through Christ before God...competence comes from God (2 Cor. 3:4,5 NIV)....IT IS WRITTEN that:...he has not despised...the afflicted; neither has He hidden His face from him... (Psa. 22:24). And,...none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned. (Psa. 34:22). (pause to love it)... (Your name), The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident. One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple. For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock (Psa. 27:1 and 3,4,5). (pause to let yourself feel reassured by God being your God!)

71 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Reassurance 71...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), delight that the reassurance that I NEED is......not from believing lies that my human competence is enough. The closeness of God as my adequacy is far greater. Lord, You are my I AM and I turn from faith in what I am... (pause to hear and love it!)...not in the power and control there is in disobedience to God. Setting my heart to enjoy God soothes me better. And, I rest into trusting that I am before the Lord, that He is before me here and that angels are all around. My God is the Almighty commander of all the angels of heaven... (pause to hear and believe it)... (Your name), listen and let yourself be reassured by loving this truth!...my God knows everything and doesn t need instruction from anyone (1 Cor. 2:16). And God has given me the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). (pause to be thankful and love the truth!)...it IS WRITTEN: God is not a man, that He should lie... (Num. 23:19)....has He spoken, and will He not make it good? (Num. 23:19). And,...the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Rom. 12:2). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...i CAN exalt You Lord, and not myself: From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the Lord is to be praised. (Psa. 113:3). You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV). (pause to love the truth!)...it IS WRITTEN:...repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:19). Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...it IS WRITTEN:...precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; and You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light (Psa. 36:7-9). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...lord, You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114);...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You... (Psa. 63:1). Thank you that You don t hold back from me because Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)... (Your name), God has made me His child (1 John 3:2). And, God has made me a descendent and heir of the promises made to Abraham (Gal. 3:29); Therefore heart,...remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day (Deu 8:18). (pause to be thankful and to trust God for this truth!)...my Jesus said,...of those whom You have given Me I lost not one (John 18:9). (pause to hear it)... On God my salvation and my glory rest; the rock of my strength, my refuge is in God (Psa.. 62:7) You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. (Psa. 142:5)...God chose us as His own possession so that we would be royal and holy priests. God called us out of darkness and into His light I am among those who proclaim the excellencies of God (1 Pet. 2:9)....Jesus Christ has made us to be a kingdom priests to God the Father (Rev. 1:6). (pause to hear it)...we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12). (pause to hear it)...through Him we...have our access in one Spirit to the Father. (Eph. 2:18; see also Heb. 4). (pause to hear it) IT IS WRITTEN: My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before Him, to minister to Him, and to be His ministers and burn incense (2 Chron. 29:11). (pause to hear it)...god is my inheritance God is my portion in this land (Num. 18:20; Deut. 18:2). (pause to hear it)...like what Elijah and Elisha did, I am [your name] who stands before the living God I am confident because I am constantly before Him (1 Kings 17:1; 2Cor. 3:4,5). (pause to feel confidence from it!)...i am reassured and confident because God has grafted me to Jesus Christ (Rom. 11:17). (pause to love it)

72 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Reassurance 72...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), delight that the reassurance I NEED is......not in distracting myself with what I watch on T.V. I turn my heart to enjoy God more than TV. Heart hear this: My delight is to trust that I am in the throne room and to love standing before God here in all His glory. My delight is in You God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from getting and having more money or material things. I turn to enjoy having God as a refuge that is more real than material things. By God being my refuge, I possess the His holy mountain (Isa.57:13). Lord, I love the richness of Your glory touching me all around. And, I am reassured as I believing You are right here close to me. I love You Lord... (pause to believe and by believing, enjoy the closeness of God!)...not in the power and control there is in holding back from relationship with God. Lord, it is You that I love. All my reassurance is in You God. You are the Lord of hosts... (pause to hear and believe it)...not in soothing myself with the food I eat. I love that the abundance of the radiance around God is more filling. I rest into feeding on You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from the impressiveness of the clothes I wear. I love wearing the presence of God and Lord, I praise You that the beauty of Your closeness touching me is a far greater glory than any earthly clothes......i turn my soul away from earthly ways of soothing myself I repent of little gods. Lord, I love Your grace to soothe my hurt with an abundance of your presence without my having to deserve it. Lord, I am trusting that my eyes are looking at You close to me here... (pause to hear and love it!)... (Your name), listen and let yourself be reassured by loving this truth!...i...have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus...[I will] draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean and our bodies washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:19, 22). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)... The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart exults, and with my song I shall thank Him. (Psa. 28:7). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...my faith and my trust in God causes Him to feel pleasure! (Heb. 11:6 and Psa. 149:4). (pause to hear it)......you are my Lord; I have no good besides You. (Psa. 16:2)....My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8)....God grows me up in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ and I give Him glory because of it (2 Pet. 3:18). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)...god likes being with me because He has made me His field and His building (1 Cor. 3:9). (believe it)...god has made me the salt of the earth and I am setting my heart to remain very salty (Matt. 5:13)....God has given me His mercy and has made me one of the people of God (1 Pet. 2:10). (pause to hear it)...god has made believers to be ambassadors representatives of and for Christ (2 Cor. 5:20)....my...God is the one who justifies (Rom. 10:33). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)......it is Heaven that rules. (Dan. 4:26)....the Lord is great, and...our Lord is above all the gods. (Psa. 135:5).

73 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Reassurance 73...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), delight that the reassurance I NEED is......not from sin or from the glory of how well I avoid getting caught. I turn and I set my heart to love the closeness of God s power and glory more... (pause to let yourself feel reassured by God s closeness!)...not from righteousness that I might think I have earned. God is my righteousness. Receiving Christ has made me righteous on the inside, and I am trusting that the LIVING water from the fountain of God is continually cleansing me, and is making the outside of me righteous also...(pause to be enjoy God!)...not from how good I appear to other people. The beauty of God s presence is what reassures me. I love You, Lord. And, I am trusting that my eyes are looking at the Father and the Son before me here......not in how hard I've worked and how much I've done for God not even from approval I earn by reading my Bible and praying. Lord, I love that You work by what You pour through me. I love that I can draw near and drink by Your grace... (pause to let yourself feel reassured because of it!)...not in seeing bad things happen to other people. I turn my heart to believe that I am before Jesus and the Father. The Holy Spirit and angels are all around, above me, and even below. The kingdom of God is here and my reassurance is by remembering the closeness of God touching me all around......not from how others fail to measure up. God is the standard not me. I set my heart to enjoy the closeness of God s love far more... (pause to let yourself be reassured by the closeness of God s love!)...not by soothing or exalting myself when I hear bad things about people. My reassurance is from God......not in how justified I am in feeling contempt toward other people. I set my heart to trust that God knows. It is the closeness of the kingdom of God that reassures me... (pause to hear and love the truth!)...i turn my soul away from letting circumstances, people, or the demonic push insecurity onto me! God and His kingdom all around me is my reassurance! I set my heart to confidently rest in the presence of God continually given by His grace... (pause to be thankful and love the truth!)... (Your name), listen and let yourself be reassured by loving this truth!... You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114);...You are my rock and my fortress; for Your name s sake You will lead me and guide me. (Psa. 31:3); You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV). You are my King and my God... (Psa. 44:4 NIV). (pause to feel confidence from it!)... How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! O Lord, they walk in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all the day, and by Your righteousness they are exalted. For You are the glory of their strength... (Psa. 89:15-17). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)......god is Light...if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another... (1 John 1:5,7); The Lord is my shepherd... (Psa. 23:1);...He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake (Psa. 23:3)....He will not fail you... (Deut. 4:31). To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul. O my God, in You I trust... (Psa. 25:1,2). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God!)...God has made me a competent minister who helps people be made right with God (2 Cor. 5:18; 2 Cor. 3:6 NIV). Jesus has given me access to heaven itself. And, I will NOT be negligent about ministering to Him and standing before the Lord (2 Chron. 29:11). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

74 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Reassurance 74...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), delight that the reassurance I NEED is......not from how much I help other people. Jesus is the Messiah, NOT me! My delight is in the Lord. I draw near by faith, And, I submit into believing the truth that Jesus and the Father are before me here......not from how well I get what I want. Instead of that I turn my heart to want God my soul shall make its boast in Him. My God is the commander of the angels in the army of heaven... (pause to love the truth!)...not from reasons why I deserve their sympathy. I set my heart to find my reassurance by resting into faith about the closeness of God with me here. Lord, my eyes are on You... (pause to believe the truth!)...not from how well my anger controls people. I turn and submit myself to trusting that God is in control. God is good... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how well I get others to feel condemned. God is the standard! I turn to exalting You Lord not myself... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not in how well I justify myself. God is the one who justifies me. God is my validation not anything else. I love that I can enter and receive the kingdom of God is all around me here... (pause to love it!)...not from the money I wish I had in my pocket. I turn my soul to love possessing You Lord. I set all my delight on God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...not in how well I achieve the expectations of people. I love that God doesn t treat me that way. I am trusting that my eyes are looking at Jesus and the Father before me here. God is my reassurance......i turn and repent of having to reassure myself by praise for what I achieve. I delight that I can turn and confidently trust God to draw near so intensely that His closeness becomes my strong reassurance... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)... (Your name), listen and let yourself be reassured by loving this truth!...lord,...you are my refuge in the day of disaster. (Jer. 17:17). You are...my rock and my fortress. (Psa. 71:3); God, You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114)....in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock. (Psa. 27:5)... I love You, O Lord, my strength. (Psa. 18:1). The Lord is my strength...and I will praise Him... (Exo. 15:2)... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)... Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yes, our God is compassionate. (Psa. 116:5)... Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident. (Psa. 27:3). Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the one fighting for you. (Deut. 3:22). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...god is bringing me into His dwelling place God is planting me in His presence (Exo. 15:17)....I am one who stands before the Lord and stays alert. WAKE UP and keep on praying at all times! And, I will escape the things about to take place because I stand before the Lord of hosts (Luke 21:36; 2 Chron. 20:9). I am not afraid even if I hear of wars or rumors of wars (Matt. 24:6; Mark 13:11). The presence of God is my hiding place! (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)

75 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Reassurance 75...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), delight that the reassurance I NEED is......not from wearing self-inflicted guilt and shame as status. Jesus paid the price on the cross. Trusting that the Lord, His angels, and the Holy Spirit are all here, that is what reassures me... (pause to love the truth!)...not from how much people need me. The kingdom of God is where I belong. Lord, I love that I can receive Your kingdom all around me here. I rest into letting the presence of God touch me here......not from my having a relationship with. I rest into faith that God is close Lord, You are the one who reassures me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...not from how well I earn their praise. I am redirecting the loves of my heart so that I can be to the praise of God s glory, not mine. Exalting God and His glory is my treasure.....not in how well I keep people impressed. Lord, it is Your glory that is impressive not mine. And, I set my heart to love the reassurance that comes from Your kingdom all around and touching me here......not from having more money to buy things. I was designed to keep on receiving and having God s presence! It is You that I love Lord. My delight is in God! I rest into letting myself be reassured because of Your presence Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...not from who I know and NOT from having more status than other people. Lord, it is You that I love to know. It is YOU that I praise not myself. I am believing that God is close to me and I am enjoying the reassurance that comes from having You close... (pause to believe and enjoy the closeness of God!)...not from what I do, and not from the feedback I get about how well I did. The closeness of God is where I get the reassurance that I need. My God is a safe refuge of love and acceptance... (pause to love God!)... (Your name), listen and let yourself be reassured by loving this truth!...god has given me the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). (pause to be thankful and love the truth!)...god has made me a disciple of Jesus Christ because I die daily and I continue in the word of Christ (John 8:31). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)....god gives me mercy and I receive it (1 Pet. 2:10). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...god has freed me from the law of sin and death (Rom. 8:2);...along with other believers, God has made me an ambassador a representative for Christ (2 Cor. 5:20)....God has gifted me by the Holy Spirit. God has given me gifts and abilities that build up the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:4-11);...God is helping me to grow and I set my heart to use my abilities and skills to exalt Him. I do not hide my abilities or potential under a rock (Luke 19:11-27). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)......o Lord... You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living (Psa. 142:5)....My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8). Guard my soul...for I take refuge in You. (Psa. 25:20)... (pause to hear and love the truth!)...god has made me competent to minister to Himself and to people because I minister while staying before God (2Cor. 3:4-6 NIV); God has made me one of His co-workers (1 Cor. 3:9); I speak to people with sincerity because I am sent by God and I am before Him when I speak to them (2Cor. 2:17).

76 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Reassurance 76...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), delight that the reassurance I NEED is......not how well I protect myself from risk. Lord, You are my reassurance. I set my heart to believe and love the closeness of God and the reassurance that comes from Him... (pause to love the truth!)...not in what I know. The closeness of the wisdom and knowledge of God is what I love. Lord, I turn my ears to listen to the Holy Spirit in my and surrounding me because of the radiance from You......not from what I justify as being right. God is the righteous judge. And, God s wisdom is worthy of praise not mine. The wisdom of God comes down onto me from above (James 3:15,17; Isa 55:10,11)......not in my analyzing it more. It is God who is my reassurance. God s knowledge is greater......not how well I understand it. Lord, You are my reassurance and it is You that I praise not myself......not from the doctrines I believe or the new things I learn. God is my reassurance. Lord, I rest into believing that I am before You and that You are here. Angels are all around, and my God is the Almighty commander of the armies of heaven... (let yourself feel confidence because of the kingdom of God!)...not in making my mind a place of refuge. God is a safe refuge of goodness and beauty. I love reassurance from God and not from me. I am resting into faith that I have entered and am before the Lord. Heart, rest into confident faith that the kingdom of God is all around me here... (pause to love it!)...not in how respectable I feel. Lord, You are my glory. I rest into receiving and enjoying Your reassuring presence Lord. I turn my heart to remember and enjoy the closeness of God and His kingdom......not in my figuring out why (something bad that happened). God knows. I rest my mind on You Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...i turn my soul from letting circumstances, people, or the demonic rob me of my being reassured. God is my reassurance! I set my heart to rest in the presence of God given freely to me by His grace... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)... (Your name), listen and let yourself be reassured by loving this truth!...heart, let yourself believe that God wants to be...my rock and my fortress. (Psa. 71:3)....the Lord loves His people... (2 Chron. 2:11). And, It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. (Psa. 118:8). God has promised with an...everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants... (Gen. 17:7; and also Gal. 3:29). Lord, You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV). (pause to believe and love God who is close!)...i...have boldness and confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12); Heart, rest into believing that...he has not despised...the afflicted; neither has He hidden His face from him... (Psa. 22:24); Heart love it that I CAN Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8). (pause to hear and love it!)...and when I draw near, I expect to see what God is doing, without visualization, I rest into being confident that the eyes of my heart are looking at the same thing as what Ezekiel saw: the heavens were opened and...on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a man...and there was a radiance around Him. As the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance... (Ezek. 1:1 and 26,27). (pause to hear and love it)

77 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Reassurance 77...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), delight that the reassurance I NEED is......not how respectable I must have appeared to them. I set my eyes and ears on You Lord not on them or on myself. Heart, let yourself trust that God and His kingdom are here angels are all around. And let yourself feel reassured from that... (let yourself feel confidence because of the kingdom of God!)...not how well I blend into my surroundings. God s presence around me that is my protection. I love that Jesus died so that I can enter the throne room and draw near to the Father. I trust that I am with You and that You are with me here... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...not from worry or fear. I set my heart to believe that I am before the Lord and that His presence is here! I rest into reassurance from the kingdom of God being here... (pause to be thankful and love the truth!)...not from. I rest into receiving the touch of Your reassuring presence all around and through me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...not in how well I avoid people who might not like me back. Lord, it is Your love that gives me energy to love them. The Lord is my God. And He is the Almighty Lord of hosts... (pause to love the truth!)...not from the impressiveness of what I say or the applause I receive. I turn my heart to love God instead of that! I rest into trusting I can enter and stand before the Lord. Having God close is what I love......i delight to turn my soul and die to independence from God. Being fully convinced that I am before the Lord and that He is before me here is the safest thing I could do. I love God s radiance upon me. I am trusting that my eyes are looking at the presence of the kingdom of God all around me here: Lord,...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5)... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)... (Your name), listen and let yourself be reassured by loving this truth!......the Lord is my God. (Zech.. 13:9). The Lord is my strength...and I will praise Him... (Exo. 15:2) the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge... (Psa. 73:28). You are my hiding place... (Psa. 32:7); Since I am afflicted and needy, let the Lord be mindful of me. You are my help and my deliverer... O my God. (Psa. 40:17); I am reassured and I am confident because Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul. (Psa. 54:4). (pause to believe, and love the God who is close!)...god has chosen to use me even when I feel foolish and weak. God chooses to use me even where I am despised by other people (1 Cor. 1:27-29). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)...god is making me fruitful in helping and ministry to others. I am trusting Him that it is a ministry that will have results that will last for eternity (Psa. 45:17). I glorify the Father because I have come to Him and am drinking from Him like a branch (John 15:5; John 7:37-39). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...god goes before us and leads me in triumph He manifests through us evidence that we know Him in every place (2 Cor. 2:14). God has made me a fragrance of Christ to Himself and to other people (2 Cor. 2:15)....God makes me able to pull down strongholds. My weapons are spiritual and are divinely powerful. With my spiritual weapons I am able to destroy lofty things and spiritual fortresses that raise up against the knowledge of God (2 Cor. 10:3-5). (pause to be thankful and love the truth!)

78 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Protection 78 Barry Hall You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the protection I NEED is......not from my hiding under a lid of self-protection that I hold down tightly from inside. I turn my heart to love God and His kingdom around me as my strong fortress I am resting into loving that I can enter, stand before Him, and receive His kingdom all around me here. God is my protection... (pause to love it!)...not in staying away from God. Drawing near to God is a better place to hide. I love the protection I find in You Lord. Angels are here and my God is the almighty commander of a vast army of angels......not by how well I keep from believing God s love and grace. I set my delight on God s presence as my protection. Like Elijah and Elisha, I am trusting that I am standing before the Lord of hosts......not by my using a lack of hope as an excuse for avoiding spiritual growth. God doesn t hold back and nothing else works. Heart, hear and believe that it is heaven that rules... (pause to love the truth!)...not from hiding in a cave of fear. I humble myself from believing that I have to protect myself. God Almighty is my strength. I am delighting my heart into believing and loving that I can draw near to God and receive the kingdom of God all around me here... (pause to believe, and love the God who is close!)...not by wearing the armor of hardness and rebellion. God is the Lord of all authority and strength and I entrust myself to Him. I set my heart to love You... (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!)...not from. I humble myself and I admit my need. I thrill my heart into believing that I am entering before the Father here and that You Lord Jesus are standing with me in all Your radiant glory. The radiance that is the Spirit flowing from Jesus and the Father is my strong fortress......i turn my soul from letting circumstances, people, or the demonic rob me of confidence about the power of God s protection. I set my heart to enter, to stay before God, and to trust His presence as my protection... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)... (Your name), listen and let yourself love the presence of God as your protection! God is my protection because I am entrusting myself to His presence around me as my refuge of power and strength: Guard my soul...for I take refuge in You (Psa. 25:20). (pause to believe and love God!)... The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident. One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple. For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock (Psa. 27:1 and 3,4,5). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God!)...I can enter and I can rest into receiving the presence of God by this God IS here and I am protected because Lord, You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114). (pause to feel reassured by it!)...i am confident that God is here and that He is protecting me because I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken...my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely. (Psa. 16:8,9). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)...god is my strong protection because the radiance of the glorified Christ is upon me by this I...put on the armor of light...put on the Lord Jesus Christ... (Rom. 13:12 and 14). (pause to hear and love it)

79 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Protection 79...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the protection I NEED is......not by priding myself with the things that I control. I humble myself into believing that I can enter and receive the kingdom of God all around me here. I am setting my heart to trust that I am standing on the sea before the throne of God. Angels are above me, behind, and they are even underneath......not by winding myself up and being hyper. I turn my praise toward God. I love that receiving the kingdom of God around me is a strong fortress... (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!)...not with the bubble of their acceptance around me. Soul hear this and hold onto God. All my delight is in You Lord. I take refuge in You power and love, and by this I possess Your holy mountain (Isa.57:13)......not by manipulating people against each other. God is a greater glory. I praise You Lord not myself. And, my eyes are on You Lord. The God I serve is the commander of the armies of heaven......not by my using self-contempt to keep myself hiding in a cocoon of depression. God is a stronger fortress. I set my heart to thrill myself that I can enter and stand before God here. My love is to hide in Your glory Lord not in depression... (pause to let yourself feel reassured by the closeness of God!)...not from a fortress of self-inflicted guilt and shame. I love finding the refuge I need in Your cleansing protection Lord. I delight my heart into loving that I can receive and wear the kingdom of God......not by using dominance to control other people or the circumstances. It is the kindness of God that I love. I rest into receiving the touch of the presence of God as my strong shield and fortress......i love the protection that comes from the presence of God with me. God hides me His kingdom, inside a kingdom that is not of this realm, not of this world. My God is the Almighty Lord of hosts (Your name), listen and let yourself love the presence of God as your protection!...i am confident about being protected because I am setting my heart to stay in the throne room with God: he who takes refuge in Me...will possess My holy mountain (Isa. 57:13). The kingdom of God IS here......but even if God does not protect me, I am determined to keep entrusting myself to His presence for the protection I need....[the king]...said to them, Is it true...that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up...if you do not worship, you will immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire...shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king...we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter...our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up (Dan. 3:14-18). (pause to be thankful and love the truth!)...by faith I draw near to God and He floods my with His radiant presence. I declare with boldness and confidence that The Lord is my light...the Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? (Psa. 27:1).... In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid... (Psa. 56:11). (pause to believe and love God!)......God...gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God! (Psa. 68:35)...It was my Jesus who prayed to the Father saying,...of those whom You have given Me I lost not one (John 18:9). And He will not lose me either! (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)

80 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Protection 80...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the protection I NEED is......not in staying away from God. I will run to You Lord. I will not stay away. I set my affections on the closeness of God... (pause to feel confidence from trusting that God s presence is here!)...not from fear and disbelief as my best hope for a place of refuge. By faith in the strength of the radiance around God, I am believing that God is shining His presence onto me here. And, His Spirit is INTENSELY present because of the power of the radiance that thunders from the fountain of God......not from a fortress of self-inflicted guilt and shame. God is a better hiding place. I rest into receiving God s presence. And I set my heart to trust that I can draw near and set the Lord continually before me like David did. I rest into believing that angels are all around me here and that I am standing before the Lord who is the commander of the armies of heaven... (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!)...not by my using a lack of hope as an excuse for avoiding spiritual growth. God is worthy of my trust. I turn my faith to God s presence. I set my love of protection on You Lord. All my delight is in You Lord......not by how well I cower and close up inside. I turn from holding back. I rest into receiving the touch of Your protection... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...not from how much I can make myself hide because of self-directed anger and contempt. I submit into hiding in God... (pause to feel confidence from trusting that God s presence is here!)...not from hiding in a cave of fear. God is a safer place to hide. I am trusting that God is with me here. I trust that my eyes are looking at You Lord. I rest into entrusting myself to God s presence as my fortress. All my protection is in You... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...i turn my soul from letting circumstances, people, or the demonic rob me of confidence about the power of God s protection. I set my heart to believe and enjoy staying in the radiance around Him (Your name), listen and let yourself love the presence of God as your protection!...by faith I enter before the Father, I open myself to God, I trust that His radiance is upon me, I receive His presence here. By this I hide myself in God and He alone is my protection because I...have made the Lord...even the Most High, your dwelling place. No evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your tent. (Psalm 91:9,10). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... Be gracious to me, O God...For my soul takes refuge in You; and in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge until destruction passes by. (Psa. 57:1)....by confidently believing I have entered and are before the fountain of God, I wrap myself in His presence of God because...god is Light... (1 John 1:5). (pause to believe and love the God who is close!)...lord,...you have been a refuge for me...let me dwell in Your tent forever... (Psa. 61:3,4)......Heart inside me, you will listen and believe: You will not be afraid of the terror by night, or of the arrow that flies by day; of the pestilence...or of the destruction...it shall not approach you...for you have made the Lord...even the Most High, your dwelling place (Psa. 91:5-9)....God is my protection because God is here! I am receiving God s presence and by faith I trust that I...walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light... (1 John 1:7 see also Psa. 104:1 NIV)....it thrills my heart to walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light (1John 1:7). He wraps Himself in light as with a garment (Psa. 104:1 NIV). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)

81 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Protection 81...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the protection I NEED is......not from maintaining their approval by accepting the blame for what they do wrong. I turn and I open myself to God......not from giving up for fear of not being able to maintain success. I will trust in God and I will not be afraid. I love You... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...not by how well I cower and close up inside. I rest into receiving the touch of Your strength Lord. I love that it is right for me to believe that I can stand in the throne room here and that God is before me in all His radiant glory... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...not from how much I can make myself hide because of self-directed anger and contempt. I set my trust in You Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not by wearing anger and harshness toward others like a coat of armor around me. I repent of putting my faith in me. And I turn my heart to trust that I can draw near with freedom and stand before the Lord who is the commander of the armies of heaven... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not by using anger and harshness in order to protect a sense of my being adequate. I rest into receiving the touch of God as my protection, all over me, around me, in me. I set my eyes and my ears on You God. Oh how I love You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not by covering up the sin of those who I wish would love me and do right. I turn and I set my hope on You Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...i love the protection that comes from the presence of God with me. God hides me His kingdom, inside a kingdom that is not of this realm, not of this world. I love the kingdom of as my strong armor. I am trusting that my eyes are looking at the presence of the kingdom of God all around me here: Lord,...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5).... (Your name), listen and let yourself love the presence of God as your protection!...heart believe this!...in repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength... (Isa. 30:15). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...i am secure and I am confident because...i have made the Lord God my refuge... (Psa. 73:28).... God is to us a God of deliverances... (Psa. 68:20). (pause to hear and believe it)...the God of all power is...my rock and my fortress. (Psa. 71:3). (pause to hear and believe it)... The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield and...my stronghold. (Psa. 18:2); The eternal God is a dwelling place... (Deut. 33:27)....Lord,...You are my refuge in the day of disaster. (Jer. 17:17)....You are my hope; O Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5). Lord God, You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114).... Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith...be strong (1 Cor. 16:13). (pause to hear and believe it)... Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8). (pause to hear and believe it)...i am confident about the power of the presence of God with me:...you shall not fear man, for the judgement is God s... (Deut. 1:17)....Be strong and courageous, and act... (1 Chron. 28:20)...I am confident about being protected by God because IT IS WRITTEN: Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)

82 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Protection 82...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the protection I NEED is......not by retreating into my mind and trying to figure things out. I trust You Lord because You know best. I love You God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from how well I protect myself from being hurt. God is the one who soothes and who heals my pain He doesn t hold back. I rest into receiving the touch of Your compassion and love. I make You my delight. I rest in Your protection Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not in what I know. I love Your wisdom Lord. I rest into receiving Your wisdom that comes down onto me from the fountain... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not in my analyzing it more and not in how well I understand something. I rest from fear and I quiet my heart into listening to the Holy Spirit who lives in me and who is being radiated on and all around me from the fountain of God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from the doctrines I believe. God is my righteousness not the details of what I believe. I set my love on You Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not in making my mind a place of refuge or retreat. I love the protection that comes from standing before the Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not in my figuring out why (some bad thing happened). I turn and I set my trust on You Lord. You are the God I love... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from my telling people that I don t want to talk about it. God is the protection I NEED. I entrust myself to You Lord. Let yourself believe that you are before the Lord and that He is here before you. Angels are all around, above behind and to the sides... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not by how well I control my emotions and stay respectable. I will be passionate in my love toward God I will not hold back... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i turn my soul from letting circumstances, people, or the demonic rob me of confidence about the power of God s protection. I set my heart to stay before the Lord and to trust Him as my protection... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)... (Your name), listen and let yourself love the presence of God as your protection!...god s word to me is: Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. (Deut. 31:6)....Be strong and courageous, and act... (1 Chron. 28:20). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i have entered, and I am trusting that I am in His radiant presence. By this, I am being protected because I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken...my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely. (Psa. 16:8,9). (pause to hear and believe it)...i have protection because I stand before Jesus and the Father God. By His power I am able to pull down strongholds. My weapons are spiritual and are divinely powerful. With my spiritual weapons I am able to destroy lofty things and spiritual fortresses that raise up against the knowledge of God (2 Cor. 10:3-5).

83 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Protection 83...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the protection I NEED is......not by making them laugh all the time. I love that my faith pleases God. It thrills me that my praise make Your Holy Spirit enjoy being here with me in power, strength, love, kindness. I love the touch of Your protection Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not by talking so much that others can't. I calm my heart into faith. I rest into receiving Your presence Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not in how well I keep myself from being embarrassed. God has given me so much that I choose to love Him back with a with a passionate kind of continual praise. Oh, I love You Lord. I turn my heart to make God my great delight... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not by avoiding something that might require change. I can change because the beliefs and loves of my heart can change... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not by preventing myself from hearing the truth about my own heart. God is the protection I need. I choose to go all the way with repentance. Holding back from total repentance cuts down on what I am able to receive from God I want it all... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not by my trying to prevent the possibility of pain. Repentance with joy can help me turn and run to God. I set my heart to turn and keep facing toward You Lord. I love Your radiant protection all around me here... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...i grab my soul and turn away from earthly sources. Lord, I love the intensity of Your glory and grace. My delight is to stand before You Lord and to trust You as my protection 24 hours-a-day (Your name), listen and let yourself love the presence of God as your protection!...i am confident about being protected because The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it and is safe. (Prov. 18:10). (pause to be thankful and love the truth!)...i am trusting that I have entered before Him and that God is here:...you, O Lord, are a shield about me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head. (Psa. 3:3)... (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)... You are my King and my God... (Psa. 44:4 NIV);...the Lord loves His people... (2 Chron. 2:11)......IT IS WRITTEN: The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. (Psa. 9:9 NIV)....even if God does not protect me, I am determined to keep entrusting myself to God s presence for the protection I need. (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) Though the fig tree should not blossom and there be no fruit on the vines, though the yield of the olive should fail and the fields produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold and there be no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He has made my feet like hinds' feet, and makes me walk on my high places... (Hab. 3:17-19)...by faith I draw near to God and He floods my with His radiant presence! By this I obey the command to...put on the armor of light...put on the Lord Jesus Christ... (Rom. 13:12 and 14). And, I declare with boldness and confidence that The Lord is my light...the Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? (Psa. 27:1). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...because of receiving God s presence and because of trusting that the kingdom of God is here, I have become a marvel to many; for You are my strong refuge (Psa. 71:7). (pause to hear and believe it)

84 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Protection 84...Thank You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the protection I NEED is......not from. I make God s Presence the protection that I love. I set my affections on You Lord and on having the kingdom of heaven all around me here......not by justifying the sin of those who are not as honest and loving as they should be. I will not hold back from God... (pause to hear, believe, and love the closeness of God!)...not by how well I avoid people who try to cause emotional pain. I set my heart to love holding tightly to the presence of God right up close to me here. Lord, You are my protection. I entrust myself to You......not by avoiding honest and open interaction. God knows and I repent of protecting myself from truth......not from fear and disbelief as my best hope for a place of refuge. I rest into receiving the closeness of God as my refuge of power and strength. My safety is in receiving and loving the kingdom of heaven all around me here. Am setting my heart to love having the Lord before me here. Angels are all around......not by avoiding ideas that make me think. I pause right now to think about the closeness of God as my strong shield... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and reassured by God s presence with you!)...not by wearing the armor of hardness and rebellion. I turn and face toward God. Your radiance around me is my shield... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) I refuse to agree with the lies of the enemy that I have to get the protection I need apart from God. The Lord God, is a strong shield of protection around me. God, I pray you would rebuke any enemy pushing me to trust myself. And Lord, I ask that with Your authority and power You would command the forces of evil to leave me alone and to never come back...(pause to let yourself believe that He is doing it)......i turn my soul from letting circumstances, people, or the demonic rob me of confidence about the power of God s protection. I set my heart to stay before the Lord and to trust Him as my protection. I am trusting that my eyes are looking at the presence of the kingdom of God all around me here: Lord,...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5) (Your name), listen and let yourself love the presence of God as your protection!...i am determined to rest in God is my protection. I turn my heart to You God! I...have made the Lord, my refuge, even the Most High, [my] dwelling place. No evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your tent. (Psalm 91:9,10). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...i am confident about the protection of God but even if God does not protect me, I am determined to keep entrusting myself to His presence for the protection I need....[the king]...said to them, Is it true...that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up...if you do not worship, you will immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire...shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king...we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter...our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up (Dan. 3:14-18). (pause to be thankful and love the truth!)

85 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Protection 85...I love the protection that comes from the presence of God with me. God hides me His kingdom, inside a kingdom that is not of this realm, not of this world......i am protected by God because I have set my heart to trust the power of His presence with me:...lord, there is no one besides You to help in the battle between the powerful and those who have no strength; so help us, O Lord our God, for we trust in You, and in Your name have come against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; let not man prevail against You (2 Chron 14:11). (pause to hear and believe it)...heart, delight in the truth that by drawing near and receiving His presence all around me,...i have made the Lord God my refuge... (Psa. 73:28). And, I am confident about it because by standing before Jesus and the Father I become...armed in the presence of the Lord... (Num. 32:32). (pause to hear and believe it)...heart, delight that I do not have to be afraid:...do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled. (1 Pet. 3:14). Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the one fighting for you (Deut. 3:21)....Do not fear or be dismayed because...the battle is not yours but God's (2 Chron. 20:15). (pause to hear and believe it)... I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken...my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely. (Psa. 16:8,9); For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock. (Psa. 27:5). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...heart, determined to believe that I am secure in the presence of God. I will be confident about the protection of God because...in repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength... (Isa. 30:15). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...i turn my trust to the presence of God. Lord,...You are my refuge in the day of disaster. (Jer. 17:17); The eternal God is a dwelling place... (Deut. 33:27); You are my hiding place... (Psa. 32:7). (pause to love Him!)......My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped... (Psa. 28:7); Since I am afflicted and needy, let the Lord be mindful of me. You are my help and my deliverer... (Psa. 40:17). Heart, delight that it is my Jesus has said,...of those whom You have given Me I lost not one (John 18:9)....Heart, delight in the truth that I am free to be confident about being protected because The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident. One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple. For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock (Psa. 27:1 and 3,4,5). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God!)...I am confident about the protection of God. I rest into trusting the grace of God for receiving His presence:...in repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength... (Isa. 30:15); Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies; I take refuge in You. (Psa. 143:9);...O Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5);...You, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head. (Psa. 3:3); Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the Lord. (Psa. 31:24);...My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped... (Psa. 28:7). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)...heart, delight that I can be confident about the protection of God because the God of peace will soon crush Satan under my feet (Rom. 16:20)... (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)

86 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Protection 86...Heart, delight in the truth that it is safe and good and right for me to listen and obey the voice of God. When God speaks to me, He wants me to obey because sometimes it is for my protection and sometimes it is so that He can bless me....heart, delight in the truth that by my obedience......god blesses me by setting me high above all the nations of the earth (Deut. 28:1); God blesses me in the city and in the country (Deut. 28:3); God blesses my family and my work (Deut. 28:4,5); God blesses me when I come in and when I go out (Deut. 28:6); God blesses me by causing my enemies to be defeated (Deut. 28:7); God blesses me in all that I do and in all that God gives me (Deut. 28:8); God blesses me by establishing me as a holy person for Him (Deut. 28:9); God blesses me so that all the people of the earth know and see me as one who has God with them (Deut. 28:10); God blesses me by making me to abound in prosperity (Deut. 28:11); God blesses me in all the work that I do. God blesses me so that I am a lender and not a borrower (Deut. 28:12); God blesses me so that I am the head and not the tail. God puts me above and not underneath (Deut. 28:13,14). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...i am confident about the protection of God but even if God does not protect me, I am determined to keep entrusting myself to His presence for the protection I need....[the king]...said to them, Is it true...that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up...if you do not worship, you will immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire...shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king...we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter...our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up (Dan. 3:14-18). (pause to be thankful and love the truth!) Though the fig tree should not blossom and there be no fruit on the vines, though the yield of the olive should fail and the fields produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold and there be no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He has made my feet like hinds' feet, and makes me walk on my high places... (Hab. 3:17-19)....Heart, delight in the truth that I am completely free to enter and I trust that I am near to God. I open myself to receive the presence of the kingdom of God all around me here. By this His presence is here and I am protected:...be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. (Eph. 6:10). By trusting my access into the throne room and entering, He draws near to me and I am...armed in the presence of the Lord... (Num. 32:32). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...heart, delight in the truth that I am strongly protected because of the presence of God:...soul...my hope is from Him. He only is my rock... (Psa. 62:5,6); Heart,...you have made the Lord...even the Most High, your dwelling place. No evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your tent. (Psalm 91:9,10)....Heart, delight in the truth that I am confident about the protection of God because it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons (Mark 16:17). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...heart, delight that I can and I will remain confident about God as my strong protection. I declare these scriptures boldly and I am listening as I say them: Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the one fighting for you. (Deut. 3:22);...In repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength... (Isa. 30:15); The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. (Psa. 9:9 NIV); O taste and see that the Lord is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! (Psa. 34:8).

87 Heart-Training Core Classes for Your Heart Group Five...let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God... (Hebrews 13:15). to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:12). Most important... While Heart-training is a form of prayer that God listens to, it should be aimed primarily toward the ears of our heart. Speak these statements out loud even though it may be uncomfortable to do so. Determine that you are going to get yourself to hear the truth. That you REST into believing may be more important than any other single factor in our effectiveness at directing our affections and pursuits toward God. Heart-training that is effective must be done assertively and with a conscious intent to listen and hear what we are saying. Speak these things with great joy in your tone of voice. Your heart may not feel joy at the moment but the truth in the heart-training statements are worthy of joy. Since the statements are true it is honest to speak it with joy even if your heart isn t feeling it at the moment. The importance of delight in your tone of voice cannot be over emphasized. Heart-training with a tone of joy in your voice is key to what will give the breakthrough that you desire. Lord God, I delight that I don t have to achieve what I need apart from You! I delight to humble myself from having to earn or deserve Your presence. I rest into believing the scriptures. I delight that You have given me access to the Father. You have made a way for me to enter the throne room, stand before You, and glory in Your presence! I rest into receiving Your Holy Spirit. Your presence is my righteousness, my good, my security, my confidence. I set my heart to love You Lord! Caution: Don t expect that you need to master any of these sections before you move on to the next. That will only make it harder for you to direct your heart toward God. Let all of these sections work together. When you have trouble hearing and believing one of the sections, another section may help you to have breakthrough. Then when you go back and focus again on what was difficult earlier, you may find it a lot easier to believe and live. Say the statements out loud and listen to what you are saying until your heart hears, believes, and loves the truth. Keep moving in the heart-training unless you feel God directing you to stay in one section for a while. Barry Hall 2011

88 God as Our Adequacy and Strength and No Fear 88 Barry Hall You Lord! And, (Your name), let your heart delight that the adequacy and strength I NEED are......not in what I know or don t know. I turn from faith in me because the closeness of God s wisdom is my adequacy... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not in how well I can figure things out for myself. I turn my ears to listen to the Holy Spirit inside and close to me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not in how much I deserve respect. My praise is toward God; He is worthy of all respect not me. And, I love enjoying confidence from having You here Lord. The kingdom of heaven is all around me here......not from my physical strength and not from how well I protect myself. I turn and I trust that my eyes are on You Lord. I love that I don t have to be afraid because when I enter and stand before the Lord, the kingdom of God is all around me here and my God is the commander of the armies of heaven......not in having people thinking I am righteous. I turn from wanting to treasure pride because of respect toward me... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not in my having people who want to listen to my answers. God is their teacher and mine......i turn my soul away from accepting pressure to be the adequate one myself. I don t have to keep trying to achieve my being enough. Lord, Your nearness is my adequacy You are my I AM. And heart, let yourself love that you don t have to be afraid about not having enough discipline to keep drinking from God use your neediness as motivation! (Your name), I love that I can receive from the radiance of God like a sponge. I CAN draw near to God and my need is so great, that the more I love and enjoy being secure and strong in God s presence, the more it helps motivate me to keep the drinking straw of my inner being, pointed toward the closeness of Lord and His kingdom 24 hours-a-day. (pause to let your heart hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) Heart hear this: that even when I do wrong, God s word to me is,...do not fear. You have committed all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart (1 Sam. 12:20). IT IS WRITTEN: Do not fear...rejoice and be glad, for the Lord has done great things. (Joel 2:21); Heart hear this:...you shall not fear man, for the judgement is God s... (Deut. 1:17); God says to me,...the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. (John 6:37); I turn from faith in myself because I...have boldness and confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12)....O Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5); In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid... (Psa. 56:11); I will not give up or give in because my...adequacy is from God. (2 Cor. 3:5); God s word to me is: Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. (Deut. 31:6); IT IS WRITTEN:...Be strong and courageous, and act... (1 Chron. 28:20). (pause to hear and believe it) O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary...god...gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God! (Psa. 68:35); I will not hold back! Entering and staying before God is my birthright as a Christian! Heart hear this:...the Lord your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed (Deut. 1:21). (pause to hear it)

89 God as Our Adequacy and Strength and No Fear (Your name), let your heart delight in the truth that the adequacy and strength I NEED are......not in my being right and their being wrong. The closeness of God s righteousness is my adequacy. I draw near to God and He draws near to me! And, I love enjoying the adequacy that comes from having the kingdom of heaven all around me here I trust that I am before the Lord and that angels are all around......not in how well I answer questions. I turn from wanting to love human wisdom. I love and I praise God who is close... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how well I know the Bible. I love God s word, but I turn from pride toward me because of what I know. I set my heart to enjoy the adequacy from believing that God and angels are here with me......not from how well I think things through. I praise Your wisdom and knowledge Lord. I turn and I love You... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how well I prevent all risk of my being wrong. I love that God s wisdom is far safer than mine... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from what I buy, or from how expensive it is. I praise the royal majesty and adequacy of the God who is close... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from the people with me. My adequacy is from God who is before me here. I look at You Lord......not from how well I make others get excited. Controlling others is not my adequacy. My adequacy is from enjoying the closeness of God and from having the kingdom of heaven all around me here (Your name), I love that I can receive from the radiance of God like a branch on a tree. I CAN draw near to God and my need is so great, that the more I love and enjoy being secure and strong in God s presence, the more it helps motivate me to keep the drinking straw of my inner being, pointed toward the closeness of Lord and His kingdom 24 hours-a-day.... (Your name), listen to what you are saying and let yourself believe and love the truth! Heart hear and believe this!...the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said, In repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength... (Isa. 30:15). (pause to hear and believe it) The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart exults, and with my song I shall thank Him (Psa. 28:7). (pause to hear and believe it) I love You, O Lord, my strength. (Psa. 18:1). (pause to believe and love the God who is close!)...the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said, In repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength... (Isa. 30:15). Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the one fighting for you (Deut. 3:21)....Do not fear or be dismayed because...the battle is not yours but God's (2 Chron. 20:15)....O Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5) Heart hear this and don t hold back:...be strong and courageous, and act; do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you... (1 Chron. 28:20);...O my God, in You I trust... (Psa. 25:1,2).

90 God as Our Adequacy and Strength and No Fear (Your name), let your heart delight that the adequacy and strength I NEED are......not from how much status I have. Rather than daydreams about me, I turn to God. The glory of God is greater than mine! I humble myself to believe and to let myself be reassured by the closeness of Your adequacy Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how well I perform. God is the standard not me. I love how well You perform Lord......not from how much influence I have. I am reassured by the power of the Holy Spirit. I drink from You God... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how well I do in sports. I trust and I receive Your adequacy and strength Lord. God is my adequacy... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from my physical strength. My adequacy is from the closeness of God. And right now, I am letting myself enjoy feeling reassured because of the closeness of Your adequacy all around me Lord......not from the car I ride in, or the cloths I wear. I can draw near to God and He does draw near to me. Right now I am trusting that I am before the Lord. The kingdom of God is all around me here. Angels are here. And, the God who is right here before me now, He is the commander of the armies of heaven......not from the (earthly possession) that I have. The closeness of God is my adequacy. Right now, I am letting myself feel adequate because God is with me here... (pause to believe, and love it as the truth!)...not from how clean my house is, or how good my yard looks. I praise You Lord for the beauty of Your adequacy, and I am strengthened by Your kingdom being all around me here... (pause to love it as truth!)...it is thrilling to turn from earthly sources and toward God. My adequacy is to stand before the Lord of hosts and praise His presence close to me. I will not hold back. My eyes are on You Lord... O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary...god...gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God! (Psa. 68:35). God has promised with an...everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants... (Gen. 17:7; and also Gal. 3:29). Be strong and let your heart take courage...hope in the Lord (Psa. 31:24). Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. (1 Cor. 16:13)....Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. (Eph. 6:10). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God!) Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. (Isa. 12:2). (pause to believe and love the God who is close!)...confidence...is ours through Christ before God...our competence comes from God (2 Cor. 3:4,5 NIV). I love You, O Lord, my strength. (Psa. 18:1). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!) The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart exults, and with my song I shall thank Him (Psa. 28:7). (pause to be thankful and love the truth!) My God is greater than the little gods this world has to offer. God says to me,...you shall not fear other gods, nor bow down yourselves to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them (2 Kings 17:35)...do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled. (1 Pet. 3:14). (pause to hear and love it)

91 God as Our Adequacy and Strength and No Fear (Your name), let your heart delight that the adequacy and strength I NEED are......not from the results I get or from how hard I work. I turn and I rest into believing God s adequacy on my behalf... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how well I justify myself. God is the one who justifies not me. My eyes and my ears are on You... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how well I achieve being a perfect. It is the closeness of my perfect God that reassures me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from how tough I am apart from God. The strength of God is adequate and I turn to put my trust in You Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from pride in my own strength to fight. The Lord is the God who fights on my behalf. My confidence is in God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from the things I get done on my list. God is the standard. I receive God s perfect presence and I am reassured... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how well I stay in control. The strength that reassures me is the closeness of God. I set my affections on Him... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart, let yourself love that you don t have to be afraid about not having enough discipline to keep drinking from God use your neediness as motivation! (Your name), I love that I can receive from the radiance of God like a sponge. My need is so great, that the more I love and enjoy being secure and strong in God s presence, the more it helps motivate me to keep the drinking straw of my inner being, pointed toward the closeness of Lord and His kingdom 24 hours-a-day. (love it!) In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid... (Psa. 56:11)......confidence...is ours through Christ before God...competence comes from God (2 Cor. 3:4,5 NIV). You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV). (pause to believe and love the God who is close!) Heart hear the word of the Lord!...the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said, In repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength... (Isa. 30:15). (pause to feel reassured by it!) Though a host encamp against me, My heart will not fear; Though war arise against me, In spite of this I shall be confident. One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple. For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock. And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, and I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. (Psa. 27:3-6). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) I will not be afraid because...it is Heaven that rules. (Dan. 4:26);...O Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5); In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid... (Psa. 56:11); I love You, O Lord, my strength. (Psa. 18:1); Behold, God is my helper; The Lord is the sustainer of my soul. (Psa. 54:4)...

92 God as Our Adequacy and Strength and No Fear (Your name), let your heart delight that the adequacy and strength I NEED are......not from what I haven't done. I turn from wanting religious pride. My praise goes to the adequacy and purity of God... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how well I discipline myself. The sovereign control of God is what reassures me. I submit to You Lord. It is heaven that rules and You are the commander of the armies of heaven......not from how well I plan and organize. I turn from having to depend on myself. I trust the Holy Spirit to speak to me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from what I provide. I humble myself into being reassured by the closeness of God s adequacy to provide for me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from how well I set standards and achieve goals. I love the closeness of God who is adequate to do what He wants... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not dependant on my getting more. I humble myself into trusting the closeness of the adequacy of God... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how well I anticipate what might happen next. It is God who knows the future. I turn my ear to You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...not from my having conquered people. It is God s power that is the adequacy and strength that I love not my own... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...are not from my finding friends who will share my dreams. God is my adequacy. I feed on Him and not my daydreams... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...are not from how well I fit in. The courage I need comes from God. Lord I turn and I let Your closeness refresh me... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...are not from the appreciation I get from other people. By salvation I have the acceptance of God by my faith, I have His approval and pleasure. I turn to God! It is the acceptance of God that thrills me. I love that my faith gives God pleasure... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...are not from the approval or disapproval of my parents. God approves of me and I am strengthened by Him......are not from relationships with people. God is my adequacy. It is relationship with God that thrills me... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...are not from how well I related to them. I turn from pride because of that. My adequacy is the closeness of God... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how hard I push myself to do something that avoids disapproval. My protection is the closeness of God. When I draw near to God He draws near by bringing heaven with Him (Isa.57:13)......By faith I am trusting that my eyes are looking at Your power and glory Lord:...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5).

93 God as Our Adequacy and Strength and No Fear (Your name), let your heart delight that the adequacy and strength I NEED are......not from doing enough to deserve acceptance. I trust the power of the blood of Christ for salvation, forgiveness, and for the acceptance of God I submit into believing that I have God s full acceptance......a burnt offering...he shall offer it...that he may be accepted before the Lord. (Lev. 1:3)....Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God... (Eph. 5:2)....Christ also accepted us to the glory of God. (Rom. 15:7). (pause to feel confidence from it!)...not from how tough I am apart from God. I turn to You Lord! In quietness and in resting in God is my strength. And right now, I am letting myself feel strengthened by confidently trusting that I have drawn near to the Lord and that the kingdom of God is all around me here... (pause to love it as the truth!)...not from the counsel I give to important people. I turn my heart to love the counsel that freely comes from the Holy Spirit in me and the Holy Spirit being radiated onto me from the fountain of God......not from people who want to talk to me. God is my boast. My adequacy is God. I turn to You Lord......not from the compliments I get. Heart hear this! My...praise is not from men, but from God. (Rom. 2:29)... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), I love that I can receive from the radiance of God like a sponge. I CAN draw near to God and my need is so great, that the more I love and enjoy being secure and strong in God s presence, the more it helps motivate me to keep the drinking straw of my inner being, pointed toward the closeness of Lord and His kingdom 24 hours-a-day....o Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5); I...will not fear, though the earth should change and though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea (Psa. 46:2); I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust! (Psa. 91:2)... (pause to believe and love the God who is close!) Heart hear this:...you shall not fear man, for the judgement is God s... (Deut. 1:17)... The Lord is for me; I will not fear; what can man do to me? (Psa. 118:6) Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them (2 Kings 6:16). Heart hear this:...do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God's (2 Chron. 20:15). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, and his children will have refuge (Prov. 14:26). In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid... (Psa. 56:11); I will not give up or give in because my...confidence...is ours through Christ before God (2 Cor. 3:4 NIV). (pause to feel confidence from it!) God s word to me is:...do not be afraid...for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you... (Deut. 31:6)....Be strong and courageous, and act... (1 Chron. 28:20) (pause to believe, and love God!) Heart hear and believe this! I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust! For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings you may seek refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark. You will not be afraid of the terror by night, or of the arrow that flies by day...a thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not approach you (Psa. 91:2-5,7).

94 God as Our Adequacy and Strength and No Fear (Your name), let your heart delight that the adequacy and strength I NEED are......not from how well I fix other people s problems. Jesus is the Messiah not me! I put my trust in God as Savior... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how well I achieve spiritual goals. The adequacy I love is the closeness of my God. I feed on You Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from the dreams I have for the future. I turn from exalting me and I feed on God. I love exalting You Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from people who desire me. The measure of my adequacy is God. I am strengthened by Your closeness Lord. My God is the commander of the armies of heaven. And, it is heaven that rules......not from how much money I earn. I turn my soul to receiving and possessing the closeness of the Lord as my God, not money... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from how tough I am apart from God. God is my strength. And when I draw near to God, it is the commander of the armies of heaven who comes close to me here. The kingdom and angels are here......not from people who are impressed with my spirituality. I turn from adequacy that is from me. The Lord is my God... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...not from my being able to cause pleasure in others. I love that my faith gives God pleasure (Heb. 11:1,2,6)... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...it is thrilling to turn from earthly sources and toward God. My adequacy is to stand before the Lord of hosts and praise His presence close to me. Lord, I love that You draw near to me without holding back... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!) I will not look at myself and lose hope in God s promises to me because my...confidence...is ours through Christ before God (2 Cor. 3:4 NIV). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)...adequacy is from God. (2 Cor. 3:5). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) Lord, it is not to my inadequacies that I cling,...my soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8); Heart hear this: He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21); I love You, O Lord, my strength. (Psa. 18:1). I rest in God because...in repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength... (Isa. 30:15). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) God is my confidence because He says to me, My Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear! (Hag. 2:5). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!) I have set the Lord continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely. (Psa. 16:8,9)... I have become a marvel to many, For You are my strong refuge (Psa. 71:7). Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is My law; do not fear the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings. (Isa. 51:7). (pause to believe and love the God who is close!)

95 God as Our Adequacy and Strength and No Fear (Your name), let your heart delight that the adequacy and strength I NEED are......not from how well I keep others impressed with me. God s glory is greater. I look at Your closeness and am refreshed... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...how well I get them to believe the truth. I turn from feeding on how well they accept my word. My fruit is from God... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...i turn my soul from having to be adequate apart from God. Lord, I turn and face toward You. You are God not me. You are Lord over all the armies of heaven. It is heaven that rules! And so heart hear this: My adequacy is from God... (pause to enjoy confidence because of the truth!)... (Your name), listen to what you are saying and let yourself believe and love the truth! God says to me,...do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! (Isa. 43:1). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) I rest confidently in God because God says to me,...my Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear! (Hag. 2:5). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) Heart hear and turn to God,...do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled. (1 Pet. 3:14)....Do not fear or be dismayed...for the battle is not yours but God's (2 Chron. 20:15). Heart listen and believe God s Word to me!...be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. (Jos. 1:9). (pause to feel confidence from it!)...god said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16). Be strong and let your heart take courage...hope in the Lord (Psa. 31:24);...Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. (Eph. 6:10); Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. (1 Cor. 16:13). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace...to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness...the zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this (Isa. 9:7)....righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne (Psa. 97:2)....a river of the water of life...coming from the throne of God... (Rev. 22:1). But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream (Amo. 5:24). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...by faith I am trusting that my eyes are looking at Your power and glory Lord:...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5).... (Your name), I delight that I don't have to agree with demonic lies to find confidence and adequacy, apart from God. Lord, I pray that You would rebuke any enemy pushing me to boast in something apart from You. I denounce these things! The Lord is my God. And Lord, I ask that with Your authority and power You would command the forces of evil to leave me alone and to never come back...(pause to let yourself believe that He is doing it)...

96 Confidence to Drink From God, Rather than Despair or Hopelessness 96 Barry Hall (Your name), I grab my soul and I turn it from despair because......struggling with sin and failing. God forgives me by His grace. Self-inflicted pain won t buy His forgiveness. And, I rest into just letting myself believe it... (be thankful about the fountain of God!)...earthly things are not the best I can confidently hope to feed on. I am thirsty. I can come to the Lord. And, I will be confident about God s promise to quench my thirst with a river of the Holy Spirit (John 7:37-39)... (pause to delight yourself in the abundance of the fountain of God! Isa 55:1,2)...my glory is not to protect myself with lies. I CAN and I should be confident to...glory in Christ and put no confidence in the flesh (Phil. 3:3)... (pause to be thankful and love the truth!) (Or, one of these...)... (Your name), I grab my soul and I turn it from dulling my thirst for God......by soothing myself with how much money I spend God has given me access and freedom to draw near... (pause to be thankful and love God and the radiance around Him! Isa 55:1,2)...by sleeping too much my access is free and clear. I set my heart to thrill myself with the abundance of the throne room... (pause to be thankful and love the truth!)...by playing too much the intensity of the radiance around God is always greater. Lord, I love that you are a fountain of power and glory... (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...by watching too much TV I can quench my thirst better with the presence of my God. Lord, I praise You... (be thankful about drinking from God like a sponge. Let yourself enjoy the fountain of God!)...I turn from trying to keep myself away from God and I repent of letting myself lose hope about receiving His presence and then punishing myself for it. I turn away from despair because God gives grace and glory (Psa. 84:11). Lord, I love Your radiance that You give so freely. Heart, let yourself believe that I am near to the fountain of God and that God is here. By faith in the strength of the radiance around God, I am believing that God is shining His presence onto me here. And, His Spirit is INTENSELY present because of the power of the radiance that thunders from the fountain of God... (pause to let yourself feel confident and be reassured by the kingdom of heaven here!)...god doesn t hold Himself back from me: My God is always a fountain who never stops gushing the Spirit intensely... (pause to be thankful and love God and the radiance around Him! Isa 55:1,2)...the fountain of living water, even the Lord. (Jer. 17:13)...You give them to drink...for with You is the fountain...in Your light we see light. (Psa. 36:8,9)...soul...my hope is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I shall not be shaken. On God my salvation and my glory rest; the rock of my strength, my refuge is in God. (Psa. 62:5-7). (pause to believe and be thankful about drinking from God like a sponge! Love the fountain!) The Lord is my portion, says my soul, Therefore I have hope in Him. (Lam. 3:24)... I...have boldness and confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12)....we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus...draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean and our bodies washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:19, 22). (pause to be thankful and love God and the radiance around Him! Receive like a sponge.) I rest into believing I can enter the throne room and draw near to You (Heb. 3:19 and ch. 4). Lord, You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV)

97 Confidence to Drink From God, Rather than Despair or Hopelessness (Your name), I grab my soul and I turn it from despair because of......sin is not my best hope of something to glory in. God has promised to fill my soul with abundance and with His goodness (Jer. 31:14)... (pause to be delight in the abundance of the goodness around Him! Isa 55:1,2)...falling short whey I compare myself to other people. I repent of that and I turn to You Lord.....my not getting as much attention as other people. Lord I love that you keep your eye upon me. Abiding in Your love is what I crave. By faith I am believing that my eyes are looking at You Lord......my not having the right things or my not having the right clothes. God is my greatest possession. Lord I love clothing myself with You... (pause to be thankful and love God and the radiance around Him!)...my not being athletic enough. Lord I love Your adequacy and You are my God. I love Your closeness... (Or, one of these...)... (Your name), I turn from dulling my thirst for God......by soothing myself with a cigarette. God soothes me better... (pause to enjoy the radiance around God!)...by taking drugs. I love that I can escape into God and His kingdom. Hiding in Him takes away all reason to have to escape. By receiving the presence of God, the kingdom of heaven around me here becomes a reality that is more real than the material world... (pause to be thankful and love the fountain of God!)...by drinking alcohol. Lord, it is You that I was designed to drink. Lord I love that I don t have to lose confidence to drink from You. I love that You wash me clean so that I can turn and trust that I am close....i grab my soul and turn it away from using despair in order to soothe my pain. I turn from trying to avoid hope. And, I turn from letting myself lose confidence about receiving God s presence and then punishing myself for it. Lord, I love that I can confidently draw near to You and...drink of the river of Your delights (Psa 36:8). I face my whole being toward You and by faith I am trusting that my eyes are looking at You... (pause to be thankful and delight yourself in the abundance around God (Isa 55:1,2). Be thankful and delight in radiance that you are trusting is shining on and all around you!) My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Psa. 73:26 NIV)....I have hope in Him (Lam. 3:24). (delight in the abundance of the fountain of God! Isa 55:1,2) Lord You have promised me that I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you, (Heb. 13:5)...You give them to drink...for with You is the fountain... (Psa. 36:8,9) for through Him we...have our access in one Spirit to the Father. (Eph. 2:18)....draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Heb. 4:16). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!) Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the Lord. (Psa. 31:24)...Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence. (Psa. 42:5)...You are my hope; O Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5) You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV). (pause to be thankful; delight in the abundance of God!)

98 Confidence to Drink From God, Rather than Despair or Hopelessness (Your name), let your heart delight that my glorying in God is not prevented by......the people who didn't love me when I was growing up. My God loves the weak and He cares about those who hurt... (pause to be thankful and delight to receiving the radiance around God! Isa 55:1,2)...the abuse I received. My God isn t the same as those who hurt me. My God is good and I can confidently trust Him.. (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)...what did to me. Lord I love that You are good and that You do good....the health that I don't have. My God is a God who heals. Lord I love that I can trust You for healing... (Or, one of these...)... (Your name), I turn from losing confidence and hope when other people love to glory in......their ability to intimidate people with the strength of their anger and contempt......their cold shamelessness... (pause to be thankful about not losing confidence and hope!)...their ability to make people hurt... (pause to be thankful about not losing confidence and hope!)...their cunning deceitfulness and their ability to lie... (pause to be thankful toward God!)...their love of sin... (pause to be thankful about not losing confidence and hope!)...strongly, I grab my soul and turn it away from thinking I should settle for hopelessness and despair. I can have more because my God gives grace and glory (Psa. 84:11). I turn from letting myself lose confidence about receiving God s presence and then punishing myself for it. Lord, I love that I can confidently draw near to You and...drink of the river of Your delights (Psa 36:8). Lord, I love Your abundant grace... (pause to delight yourself in the abundance of the fountain of God! Isa 55:1,2) The Lord is my portion, says my soul, Therefore I have hope in Him. (Lam. 3:24)......as for me, I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more. (Psa. 71:14) Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the Lord. (Psa. 31:24)...I have hope in Him. (Lam. 3:24) (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)...soul...my hope is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I shall not be shaken. On God my salvation and my glory rest; The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God. (Psa.. 62:5-7)... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...hope in God, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence. (Psa. 42:5) Lord, I rest into believing I am before Your throne: the radiance around you is so great it makes a lake and a river of the Spirit before the throne! I love that I can drink like a sponge from the fountain of God and from the river of Your delights Lord (Psa 36:8)....a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb (Rev. 22:1). (pause to be thankful and delight yourself in the abundance around God! Isa 55:1,2)...and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal... (Rev. 4:6; 22:1) Let the godly ones exult in glory...let the high praises of God be in their mouth... (Psa. 149:56).

99 Confidence to Drink From God, Rather than Despair or Hopelessness (Your name), I turn from losing confidence to drink from God when......people try to prevent what is good... (be thankful about not losing confidence to drink from God!)...people don't care enough about unrighteousness and even seem to disapprove of what is right......people I care about, seem love lies and think that evil is good... (be thankful about drinking from God!)...it feels like the risk is great and self-protection seems better... (be thankful about drinking from God!)...they don't share my hope for the future and they don t want to even try to understand......they are not the friend that I wanted them to be... (be thankful about being free to drink from God!)...everything seems to be going against me and nothing is cooperating with my goals......they don t value my contribution or what I have to offer... (be thankful about drinking from God!)...lovingkindness and compassion are not valued......people are insensitive and hurtful... (be thankful about being free to drink from God!) (be thankful about being free to drink from God!)...I turn from despair because my best hope to quench my thirst is not with myself. I turn from trying to force myself to stay away from God. And I repent of letting myself lose confidence about receiving God s presence and then punishing myself for it. Lord, I love that I can confidently draw near to You and...drink of the river of Your delights (Psa 36:8). The Lord is my God and I love YOUR closeness Lord. By faith in the strength of the radiance around God, I am believing that God is shining His presence onto me here. And, His Spirit is INTENSELY present because of the power of the radiance that thunders from the fountain of God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and delight in the abundance of the radiance from the fountain of God! Isa 55:1,2) My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Psa. 73:26 NIV);...God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...i don t have to lose confidence to glory in God because I...have boldness and confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12). (pause to delight yourself in the abundance of the fountain of God! Isa 55:1,2)...You are my hope; O Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5)...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8) (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...hope in God, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence. (Psa. 42:5)......as for me, I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more. (Psa. 71:14) Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the Lord. (Psa. 31:24)... The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (Psa. 34:18) The Lord is my portion, says my soul, Therefore I have hope in Him. (Lam. 3:24)... Though the fig tree should not blossom and there be no fruit on the vines, though the yield of the olive should fail and the fields produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold and there be no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He has made my feet like hinds' feet, and makes me walk on my high places. (Hab. 3:17-19). (pause to hear, believe, and love the radiance around God!)

100 Confidence to Drink From God, Rather than Despair or Hopelessness (Your name), I turn from losing confidence to draw near and drink from God when......they just keep trying to justify themselves... (be thankful about not losing faith to drink from God!)...people seem to think I am a joke and they want to gloat over being above than me......when other people try to get me to do bad things... (pause to delight in the abundance around God)...they won't receive my help... (be thankful about not losing confidence to drink from God!)...people are afraid to face the truth and change... (delight in the abundance from the fountain! Isa 55:!,2)...people reject the gospel that God has used to set me free... (pause to love the abundance around God!)...friends don't want to talk to me sometimes... (believe you CAN drink from the abundance of God!)...they put limits on me because they don't have vision... (pause to delight in abundance of the river!) I delight that don't have to believe lies that I need to avoid being confident of my hope to glory in God. I denounce these things! Lord, You are the God of all glory. Lord, You are my God I pray that You would rebuke any enemy pushing me to protect myself with disbelief. And Lord, I ask that with Your authority and power that You would command the forces of evil to leave me alone and to never come back...(pause to let yourself believe that God is doing it)...i turn away from hopelessness and despair. I turn from trying to keep myself away from God. I repent of letting myself lose confidence about receiving God s presence and then punishing myself for it. Lord, I love that I can confidently draw near to You and...drink of the river of Your delights (Psa 36:8). Heart, let yourself believe that I am near to the fountain of God and that God is here. By faith in the strength of the radiance around God, I am believing that God is shining His presence onto me here. And, His Spirit is INTENSELY present because of the power of the radiance that thunders from the fountain of God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured because of believing you ARE receiving from the abundance around God! Isa 55:1,2) The Lord is my portion, says my soul, Therefore I have hope in Him. (Lam. 3:24)......love is from God... (1 John 4:7) (pause to believe the radiance of God is on and all around you!) keep yourselves in the love of God... (Jude 1:21) (pause to love being reassured by His love!)...i rest into believing that You are radiating Your Holy Spirit onto me:...god is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Psa. 73:26 NIV) (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! O Lord, they walk in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all the day, and by Your righteousness they are exalted. For You are the glory of their strength...for our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel (Psa. 89:15-18). (pause to believe the radiance around God is the Holy Spirit Himself John 7:37-39) Lord, I rest into believing I am before Your throne. I love that I can drink from You like a sponge Lord....a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb (Rev. 22:1)....and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal... (Rev. 4:6; 22:1)

101 Confidence to Drink From God, Rather than Despair or Hopelessness (Your name), I turn from dullness about drawing near to God because of......my human condition or my lack of ability apart from God......circumstances or people that aren t cooperating... (pause to be confident about drinking from God!)...how much I have struggled with sin and failed... (pause to delight yourself in abundance Isa 55:1,2)...the clothes I don't have... (pause to be believe and love drinking from the fountain of God!)...the promotion or the job I didn't get... (pause to delight yourself in abundance Isa 55:1,2)...my human imperfections... (pause to be confident about drinking from the radiance around God!)...my not thinking as clearly as others... (pause to delight yourself in abundance Isa 55:1,2)... (Your name), I grab my soul and I turn it from dulling my thirst for God......by sleeping too much the radiance of God is readily available to me personally. Lord, I praise You God... (pause to believe and love drinking from the abundance from the fountain of God! Isa 55:1,2)...by stuffing the pain with food I can fill myself with the presence of God. Lord, I love Your grace......by soothing myself with sin it is much easier and better to soothe myself with the radiance of God close to me and touching me... (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...by wanting to find pleasure in rebellious sin standing before the Lord and having Him before me is far more thrilling... (pause to believe the radiance from God is the Holy Spirit Himself John 7:37-39)...I turn from despair because my best hope to quench my thirst is not with myself. The Lord is my God. I turn from trying to avoid God by letting myself lose confidence about receiving His presence and then punishing myself for it... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of God s presence!) Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God. (Psa. 43:5)... My soul shall make its boast in the Lord... (Psa. 34:2) Heart hear this: He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21)...as for me, I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more. (Psa. 71:14)... This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. The Lord's lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, says my soul, Therefore I have hope in Him. (Lam. 3:21-24)...Lord, I humble myself into believing I can,...worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus... (Phil. 3:3);...as for me, I will hope continually... (Psa. 71:14)... I will give thanks to You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and will glorify Your name forever. (Psa. 86:12);...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8). (pause to let yourself love God s presence!)

102 Confidence to Drink From God, Rather than Despair or Hopelessness (Your name), I turn from losing confidence about drawing near and drinking from God......when unrighteousness seems like it is everywhere... (pause to delight yourself in abundance Isa 55:1,2)...when other people try to get me to do bad things...(pause to enjoy the Holy Spirit that shines from God!)...when it is a struggle to allow my heart to believe... (pause to delight yourself in abundance Isa 55:1,2)...when evil is just being evil... (pause to love that the Holy Spirit shines onto you from God John 7:37-39)...when injustice wants to overwhelm me... (pause to delight yourself in abundance Isa 55:1,2)...when the right things didn't get done... (pause to believe you ARE receiving the radiance from God!)...when the circumstances don't cooperate or when circumstances want to overwhelm me......when other people make God s approval a thing to achieve... (pause to delight in abundance Isa 55:1,2)...when when someone doesn t want to be my friend... (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...when they won't move ahead because of their fears... (pause to delight yourself in abundance Isa 55:1,2)...I turn from despair because my best hope to quench my thirst is not with myself. I turn from trying to keep myself away from God by letting myself lose faith about receiving His presence and then punishing myself for it. The Lord is my God and He is my best hope to feed my neediness... Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the Lord. (Psa. 31:24)......The Lord is my God. (Zech.. 13:9). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...i have hope in Him. (Lam. 3:24);...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8)...as for me, I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more. (Psa. 71:14). Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God. (Psa. 43:5). My soul shall make its boast in the Lord... (Psa. 34:2); He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21). My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Psa. 73:26 NIV)... (pause to believe and trust that the fountain of God is close!)...soul...my hope is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be shaken. On God my salvation and my glory rest; the rock of my strength, my refuge is in God. (Psa. 62:5-7)...I can draw near and drink (receive) the Holy Spirit, any time, any where, as much as I want......come to Me and drink...from [my] innermost being will flow rivers...of the Spirit... (John 7:37-39)....come to the waters...delight yourself in abundance. (Isa. 55:1,2) How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; and You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. (Psa. 36:7-9) Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary... (Psa. 150:1).

103 Inner Healing: Letting God Give You a New Heart 103 Barry Hall Come, let us return to the Lord...He will bandage us. He will revive us...he will raise us up...that we may live before Him (Hos. 6:1,2). (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i, the Lord, am your healer. (Exo. 15:26). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of this truth!)! Thank You Lord that I don t have to be afraid of You! And, I turn away from agreeing with demonic pressure to avoid exposing my hurt to You for healing!! Heart hear this, because I am telling you to believe and to feel delight about this truth! IT IS WRITTEN that...unto you...the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings and His beams, and you shall go forth and gambol like calves [released] from the stall and leap for joy (Mal 4:2, Amplified). And Jesus said, I have come as Light into the world... (John 12:46).!Trust you are entering and are now before the Lord here. Open up to God and let yourself receive: Right now Lord I am trusting that Your healing Light is reaching into me and is and giving me... healing for past and recent hurts... (pause to believe that God s Light is shining into you, and is healing you! Wait just a few seconds, believing it, then, go to the next statement.) healing for the result from the darts, the lies, and the poison of the enemy... (pause to receive) healing from the emotional and spiritual damage done by sin... (pause to believe that God s Light is shining into you, and is healing you! Wait just a few seconds, believing it, then, go to the next statement.) healing from the damage done by the sin of others toward me... (pause to believe and receive!) healing from the result of hurtful or careless words from other people, or from other Christians... (pause to believe, receive, and love it as the truth!) Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone... (Ezek. 36:26). (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)!trust you are before the Lord and open up: Right now Lord I am trusting that You are reaching in and that You are removing any hardness of heart in regard to ; remove hardness from... fear (believe and receive); doubt (pause); worry (pause); disbelief (pause); discouragement (pause); hopelessness (pause); despair (pause); depression (pause); anger (pause); defiance (pause); rebellion (pause); rejection (pause); abandonment (pause); fears about human inadequacy (believe and receive)...!trust that the veil was torn and you are NOT separated from heaven. You have entered before the Lord and God is before you here: Right now God I am trusting that You are reaching in and are giving me... a soft heart toward being able to have greater relationship with You, toward obeying You God, toward believing that You are supremely good... (pause to believe God is shining and that you ARE receiving!) a soft heart toward the truth (pause), toward loving the truth (pause), and toward obeying the written and spoken word of God... (pause to believe God is shining into you and healing you!) a soft heart toward loving others (pause), toward living in righteousness and purity (pause), and a soft heart to forgive others and to forgive myself... (pause to believe the power of God and receive!)

104 Inner Healing: Letting God Give You a New Heart 104! Thank You Lord that I don t have to be afraid of You! And, I turn away from agreeing with demonic pressure to avoid exposing my hurt to You for healing! I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart (Jer. 24:7). (pause to hear, believe, and love God)!Trust power of God: Right now Lord I am trusting that You are reaching in and are giving me... a whole heart that returns easily and keeps moving forward to know You more intimately... (pause to believe that God is shining and that you ARE receiving His power for healing into and all around you!) a hope and faith filled heart that returns and stays continually turned toward You as my God... But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law (Gal. 5:22,23).!Trust you are before the Lord and that God is before you here. Open up to God and to the radiance of the Holy Spirit coming to you because of His shine: Right now Holy Spirit I am trusting that You are working into me and out of me the fruit that only You can produce... love (pause to believe and receive!), joy (pause), peace (pause), patience (pause), kindness (pause), goodness (pause), faithfulness (pause), gentleness (pause), self-control (believe and receive)... for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure (Phil. 2:13).!Trust that the veil was torn and you are NOT separated from heaven. Let yourself confidently believe that You have entered before the Lord and God is before you here: Right now Lord I am trusting that You are reaching in and are working into me... the will and the willingness to work for Your good pleasure... (pause to believe and receive!) a passion and zeal for abiding, for drinking from God, and for a continual sacrifice of praise... (pause to believe God is HERE shining onto and into you and that you ARE receiving!) a passion and zeal for continually receiving the kingdom of God.. (pause to believe and to receive!) I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth...god...causes the growth (1 Cor. 3:6,7).!Trust you are before the Lord and that God is before you here. Right now Lord I am trusting that Your Holy Spirit is a person who is strong and an intense Light that is reaching in and is working in me to... cause growth in character (pause to believe and to receive); faith (pause); hope (pause); confidence (pause); steadfastness (pause); integrity (pause); obedience to You God (pause); greater capacity for intimacy with You (pause); a strong will and moral resolve to say, No, to temptation and sin (pause to believe and to receive!)... with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth (2 Tim. 2:25).!Trust you are before the Lord and that radiant fountain of God is before you here. Right now Lord I am trusting that You are reaching in and are working in me to... grant repentance in regard to... (pause to believe and to receive!)

105 Inner Healing: Letting God Give You a New Heart 105! Thank You Lord that I don t have to be afraid of You! And, I turn away from agreeing with demonic pressure to avoid exposing my hurt to You for healing! Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful (John 14:27).!Trust you are entering and are now before the Lord here. Open up to God and let yourself receive: Right now Lord I am trusting that You are reaching in and are giving me... a confident and restful peace about who You are and about what You are doing with me... (pause to believe and to trust you ARE receiving the healing Light of God shining into and onto you!) And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed (2 Cor. 9:8)...!Trust that the veil was torn and you are NOT separated from heaven. Let yourself confidently believe that You have entered before the Lord and God is before you here: Right now, I present my body before You Lord and I am trusting that You are reaching in and are giving me... an abundance of grace for sufficiency in everything and an abundance of grace for every good deed... (let yourself feel confidence about God s power to heal you, receive, and expect healing!)...i am the Lord who sanctifies you (Lev. 20:8)....walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh (Gal. 5:16)....if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live (Rom. 8:13). Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God (Rom. 6:12,13)....present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship (Rom. 12:1)....just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification (Rom. 6:19).!Trust you are before the Lord and that God is before you here. Open up to God and to the radiance of the Holy Spirit coming to you because of His shine: Right now Lord, I present my body before You Lord and I let You reach into my body... I present my body before you as a slave to righteousness... (pause to believe, receive, and love it) work in me so that the result is sanctification... (pause to believe, receive, and love God for it) I am trusting that You Holy Spirit will work in me and put to death the deeds of the body... (pause to believe that God s healing power is shining into you and all around; you ARE receiving it!) As I continue to present my body before You I will keep trusting that You are putting to death the deeds of the body and that You are also working through me and are using me as an instrument of righteousness... (pause to believe, receive, and to love God s presence working in and all around you!)

106 Believing and Enjoying the Love of God 106 Barry Hall don t have to do some righteous thing before I let myself believe God loves me it is safe to trust......god s love for me is not overcome by how bad I have been. I love the closeness of Your love Lord......I don't have to justify God s love for me. I love that I can draw near to God and that He does draw near to me. I rest into letting God s love touch me all around and I am letting myself enjoy that right now......i don t have to be proud of my human goodness before I let myself believe God loves me. It is because of my getting close to the radiance around You that I can enjoy the touch of Your abiding love......i don t have to (example of some good behavior ) in order to keep myself inside the love of God showered down all around me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that I do repent of trying to find security through disbelief about God s love! Heart hear and be soft. Listen and let yourself enjoy God s love! (pause to love His love!)...i delight that it is safe and right for me to rest and openly receive God s love. I grab my soul and I turn it away from believing lies from the devil about God s love for me! I turn from fear about my having to maintain spiritual success in order to keep deserving His love. Right now Lord, I am trusting that Your presence is all around me touching me and I rest into believing the truth that You are right here loving me without any holding back... (pause to believe and love it) Lord, I delight to draw near to You it is safe and thrilling to hide myself in the love that You shine upon me from Your face... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!) May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you. (Psa. 33:22 NIV)....love is from God... (1 John 4:7);...God is love, and the one who abides in love, abides in God... (1 John 4:16). I hide myself inside the substance of Your love because You said to...abide in My love. (John 15:9); keep yourselves in the love of God... (Jude 1:21). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!) I love that Jesus commands me,...abide in My love. (John 15:9); So right now Lord, I am resting in the truth about Your love touching me and staying all around me and I am letting myself enjoy it......the Lord is good and his love endures forever, his faithfulness continues... (Psa. 100:4 NIV);...great is your love toward me... (Psa. 86:13 NIV); O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! (Psa. 34:8);...none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned. (Psa. 34:22);...He has not despised...the afflicted; neither has He hidden His face from him... (Psa. 22:24);...the Lord loves His people... (2 Chron 2:11); I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me (John 17:23); And right now, I am letting myself enjoy the love of God touching me all around... 'For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and...of Judah cling to Me,' declares the Lord, 'that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen.' (Jer. 13:11). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you. (Deut. 23:5)....He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. (Zeph. 3:17 NIV);...the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation. (Psa. 149:4). (pause to hear)

107 Believing and Enjoying the Love of God Heart, delight in the truth that God s love for me is not because of what I do for God. It is You who are worthy of praise. I praise You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that God s love for me is not because of pity. I rest into receiving the touch of God s perfect and good love abiding in me and all around me... (pause to and love God s love!)...heart, delight in the truth that the amount of effort I make will never earn God s love for me. I praise You Lord that Your love for me is so great and free just for believing... (pause to believe, and love it!)...heart, delight in the truth that I don t have to protect myself from believing God loves me it is safe and good to believe God s love for me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i don't have to do more in order to possess God s love. I rest into receiving His love lavished onto me from the continual blast of fountain of God......I don't have be more impressive spirituality in order to earn God s love. Oh, how I love You Lord......Heart, delight in the truth that I don't have to believe the lies of the enemy that I have to try and earn God s love. I denounce these lies! Lord, You are my God; rebuke any enemy pushing me to try to earn Your love... (pause to let yourself believe and enjoy the love of God as powerful armor around you)......i repent of having to protect myself with disbelief about God s love for me. And, I repent and I turn from believing that I could fail and then lose His love! Lord, Your love is what I wrap myself with. Right now, I am trusting that Your presence is all around me and I rest into believing the truth that You are right here touching me with Your love... (pause to believe and love His love!)...heart, delight in the truth that God s love is perfect enough to cast out my fears! (1 John 4:18)...Heart, enjoy that God s love for me is patient and kind! (1 Cor. 13:4 RSV)...Heart, delight that God s love looks for ways of being constructive with me! (1 Cor. 13:5a Phillips)...Heart, enjoy that God s love for me is not irritable and is never touchy! (1 Cor. 13:5 The Living Bible)...Heart, delight in the truth that God s love for me is not condemning in any way! (Rom. 8:1)...Heart, delight that God s love for me is never like a roaring lion that is seeking to devour me! (1 Peter 5:8)...Heart, be comforted by letting yourself believe and love the truth that God knows everything about me, yet still, He deeply loves me - I cannot escape it! (Psa. 139)...Heart, delight in the truth that God s love does not decrease when I fail! (1 Cor. 13:8; Rom. 5:8; Rom. 8:36-39)...Heart, delight in the truth that God s love for me does not increase when I succeed! (Eph. 3:17-19)...Heart, enjoy the truth that God s love for me is good. Lord, Your love for me is good enough for me to trust! (Psa. 34:8; John 15:9)....God s love for me is a jealous love. We get jealous because we can t have. But, You Lord, You get jealous when You can t give. (Exo. 34:14; Isa. 30:18; Psa. 84:11,12). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...my God does not abandon His people. Heart hear this: My God will never abandon me:...the Lord will not abandon His people, Nor will He forsake [us, as] His inheritance. (Psa. 94:14);...the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name... (1 Sam. 12:22);...I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you, (Heb. 13:5). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)...those who know Your name will put their trust in You, for You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You. (Psa. 9:10). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

108 Heart-Training Core Classes for Your Heart Group Six...let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God... (Hebrews 13:15). to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:12). Most important... While Heart-training is a form of prayer that God listens to, it should be aimed primarily toward the ears of our heart. Speak these statements out loud even though it may be uncomfortable to do so. Determine that you are going to get yourself to hear the truth. That you REST into believing may be more important than any other single factor in our effectiveness at directing our affections and pursuits toward God. Heart-training that is effective must be done assertively and with a conscious intent to listen and hear what we are saying. Speak these things with great joy in your tone of voice. Your heart may not feel joy at the moment but the truth in the heart-training statements are worthy of joy. Since the statements are true it is honest to speak it with joy even if your heart isn t feeling it at the moment. The importance of delight in your tone of voice cannot be over emphasized. Heart-training with a tone of joy in your voice is key to what will give the breakthrough that you desire. Lord God, I delight that I don t have to achieve what I need apart from You! I delight to humble myself from having to earn or deserve Your presence. I rest into believing the scriptures. I delight that You have given me access to the Father. You have made a way for me to enter the throne room, stand before You, and glory in Your presence! I rest into receiving Your Holy Spirit. Your presence is my righteousness, my good, my security, my confidence. I set my heart to love You Lord! Caution: Don t expect that you need to master any of these sections before you move on to the next. That will only make it harder for you to direct your heart toward God. Let all of these sections work together. When you have trouble hearing and believing one of the sections, another section may help you to have breakthrough. Then when you go back and focus again on what was difficult earlier, you may find it a lot easier to believe and live. Say the statements out loud and listen to what you are saying until your heart hears, believes, and loves the truth. Keep moving in the heart-training unless you feel God directing you to stay in one section for a while. Barry Hall 2011

109 Redefining Success: Being to the Praise of God s Glory, Not my Own 109 Barry Hall let yourself find joy and delight that success is NOT defined by I achieve humanly speaking. Success is to keep drinking from God and to let Him work as He pours Himself through me......the success I love is NOT from exalting myself with subtle forms of internal praise: I will exalt God with a continual sacrifice of praise for His attributes. I turn from feeding myself with praise about my attributes. I love worshiping God, not myself... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT to enjoy exalting myself with evidence of how good I am. I love praising You Lord because it is You who are good. Any good that comes through me is because Your goodness is near to me. And I set my heart to keep on receiving the radiance that shines from God because I am determined to allow God to do His work by what He pours through me......heart the success I long for includes loving God by a continual sacrifice of not exalting myself. I delight that I can love God by praising His attributes and not mine. I love You Lord, and I set my will to sacrificially love God with continual praise that would normally go toward me......the success I love is NOT in trying to find reasons why they should be impressed with me. You are the God of all glory. Success isn t to bring honor to myself. Any human glory that comes to me, I will exalt You with it Lord. My God is the commander of the armies of heaven and it is heaven that rules......the success I love is NOT in fighting to achieve and then defend my self-worth. I don't have to play that game anymore. My am trusting that my eyes are looking at You Lord. My ears are set to keep on listening for You to speak to me here... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i turn my soul away from having to find reasons for praising myself. I don t have to feed myself that way! I will exalt and honor God He is a far better refuge, a greater strength and glory... And heart, let yourself love that you don t have to be afraid about not having enough discipline to keep drinking from God use your neediness as motivation!... (Your name), I love that I can receive from the radiance of God like a sponge. I CAN draw near to God and my need is so great, that the more I love and enjoy being secure and strong in God s presence, the more it helps motivate me to keep the drinking straw of my inner being, pointed toward the closeness of Lord and His kingdom 24 hours-a-day. (pause to let yourself love and enjoy the closeness of God!) (And one of these...)...worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh, (Phil. 3:3) to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory. (Eph. 1:12); You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV); You are my King and my God... (Psa. 44:4 NIV); Heart hear this: He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21) For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly. (Psa. 84:11); Lord,...You...are...my glory... (Psa. 3:3 TAB) I will be glad...in You...O most High. (Psa. 9:2);...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8)...I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all the gods. (Psa. 135:5) Success comes from God because...from Me comes your fruit (Hosea 14:8). The success I long for comes by my receiving the shine of God s face upon me, the Lord make His face shine on you, and be gracious to you (Num. 6:24-26). And so,...as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until He is gracious to us (Psa. 123:2).

110 Redefining Success: Being to the Praise of God s Glory, Not my Own the success I love is NOT in how well I soothe myself by earthly means in order to deaden the desperate pain from my longing for God... (pause to let yourself feel reassured because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT in the pleasure I find exalting myself with evidence of my knowledge and understanding: I will exalt the Lord and His attributes not mine. I love praising You Lord, You are the God of all knowledge and wisdom......the success I love is NOT to exalt myself when I think I have things figured out. God is the God of all understanding. I will love Him with a continual sacrifice of praise......the success I love is NOT to daydream about saving the world. Jesus is savior, not me. I humble myself before You Lord. Heart hear this! Jesus is Savior not me! Because You are here Lord Jesus I can and I will depend on You to be Savior to the people around me......the success I love is NOT by what I do for God it is by what God does in and through me. I will keep on drinking from You Lord Jesus so that together we can glorify the Father......the success I love is NOT to exalt myself because of how much I help other people: I love that Jesus is the Messiah and Savior not me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT to satisfy myself when other people enjoy me: Soul, feed on God! I will exalt the Lord with any glory that comes toward me. Inside, I will erupt with praise toward God. I demonstrate my love for God that way. My God is the commander of the armies of heaven and it is heaven that rules......i grab my soul and I turn it from exalting myself. Lord, I turn and give You praise I give You a sacrifice of praise that normally goes back toward me. You are the Lord not me... (And one of these...) You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV) The Lord is my strength...and I will praise Him... (Exo. 15:2) Heart hear this: He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21) I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust! (Psa. 91:2) I set my heart to live, to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory. (Eph. 1:12) My soul shall make its boast in the Lord... (Psa. 34:2) Some boast in chariots and some in horses, But we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God. (Psa. 20:7) Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary... (Psa. 150:1)...The Lord is my God. (Zech.. 13:9)...Ascribe greatness to our God! (Deut. 32:3)...you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. (Psa. 86:15 NIV) Heart hear this: He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21)...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8) The Lord s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. (Lam. 3:22)

111 Redefining Success: Being to the Praise of God s Glory, Not my Own the success I love is NOT in coveting earthly things in order to try and dull my thirst for God. It is the presence of God that is my delight. I love that I can love God with praise and that I can give the Holy Spirit reason to enjoy being near me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT in how well I protect myself: Even if I have to praise Him quietly, I will exalt the Lord instead of myself. It is only God who is strong enough to provide the protection I need. I love Your closeness Lord. I hide myself in You......the success I love is to love God and know that He enjoys it. I will love God by praising His attributes and not mine. Success isn t to feed myself with human glory. I turn from that and I set my will to sacrificially love God with continual praise......the success I love is NOT to find joy in how well I justify myself: I will exalt the Lord not myself. You alone are the God who justifies... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT in daydreams of when I might achieve standards that just keep getting higher: Lord, You are the standard. I set my eyes are on You Lord not on myself......the success I love is NOT to thrill myself over evidence of my human significance. I turn from wanting to feed myself with the praises of people. When it comes, I will thank them, but inside I will explode with praise toward You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i turn from living to the praise of my glory. The Lord is God. His presence given to me freely is a far better refuge, a better strength, a greater glory than the little gods of this world. Lord, I praise You... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) (And one of these...) Success comes from God because...from Me comes your fruit (Hosea 14:8). The success I long for comes by my receiving the shine of God s face upon me, the Lord make His face shine on you, and be gracious to you (Num. 6:24-26). And so,...as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until He is gracious to us (Psa. 123:2). I set my heart to live, to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory. (Eph. 1:12) Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name. (Heb. 13:15) You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV) Heart hear this: He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21) From the rising of the sun to its setting The name of the Lord is to be praised. (Psa. 113:3) Lord,...You...are...my glory... (Psa. 3:3 TAB) May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you. (Psa. 33:22 NIV) You are my King and my God... (Psa. 44:4 NIV) My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord... (Psa. 145:21) Lord, You are...my rock and my fortress. (Psa. 71:3); I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust! (Psa. 91:2); I will be glad...in You...O most High. (Psa. 9:2).

112 Redefining Success: Being to the Praise of God s Glory, Not my Own not to thrill myself with how well I perform spiritually: I will exalt the Lord instead of myself. I set my affections on You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT. Success is to exalt God and to keep drinking from Him like a branch drinks from the trunk of the tree AND like a branch drinks from the rain. I rest into opening up and drinking like a branch. I determine to keep my eyes and the loves of my heart set on You Lord......the success I love is NOT in the joy of exalting myself with subtle forms of internal praise: I love exalting God because He alone is worthy......the success I love is to keep abiding in the radiance around God and to keep drinking from Him like a branch drinks from a tree. I set my heart to believe Your glory Lord. I open myself to receive by soaking up the Holy Spirit of glory that radiates from You. I delight that it is God s will to produce fruit through me that glorifies the Father... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT in daydreams of how well I achieve perfection. I love the closeness of Your perfection Lord. You are my God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT to exalt myself because of the new things I learn. I love the closeness of Your wisdom Lord. You are the God of all understanding. I turn my ears to listen to the Holy Spirit who is close and inside me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT in how well I avoid all possibilities of risk: I praise You Lord, even if it has to be quiet. You are my protection. And, my God is the commander of all the angels of heaven......the success I love is NOT to drink from the glory of my being what people think I can be: Lord, You don t hold back Your plans for good... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i turn from looking for reasons to believe I have glory humanly speaking. I grab my soul and turn it toward exalting God not myself. I praise You Lord! You are a far better refuge, a greater strength... (pause to let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) (And one of these...)...i...have boldness and confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12). for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. (Eph. 2:18) You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV) I set my heart to live, to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory. (Eph. 1:12) Heart hear this: He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21)...When I come to You Lord, You wash me clean (Heb. 10:19,22). I don t have to wait to draw near because You are my good; I welcome Your presence (Psa.. 73:28)....You...are...my glory... (Psa. 3:3 TAB); You are my King and my God... (Psa. 44:4 NIV);...I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all the gods. (Psa. 135:5); I will be glad...in You...O most High. (Psa. 9:2)....the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name... (1 Sam. 12:22)

113 Redefining Success: Being to the Praise of God s Glory, Not my Own the success I love comes from the shine of God s face. And, it thrills my heart to praise Him when human glory comes my way. I exalt You Lord. I delight that my praises give the Holy Spirit reason to enjoy being close to me in power, love, compassion, and righteousness......the success I love is NOT in how well I use stress as a tool to help me achieve more: I rest into allowing God to work through me. I set my affections on You Lord not on what I achieve. I love the closeness of the Holy Spirit who is my helper... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...does not rise or fall when nobody notices the good things I do: God knows and He is writing His own set of history books. As for me, I will keep on trusting that God is with me here and that He is producing spiritual fruit through me by my absorbing His radiance and letting the Holy Spirit flow through me......is not in the evidence I find of my own creativity: I will exalt the Lord of all creativity and not myself. I praise You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love does NOT in how well I get someone to make me feel secure. God is my strong security. I love Your closeness Lord. I have no security apart from You. My heart rests and is confident in You Lord not in myself... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i turn my soul away from having to find reasons for being able to praise myself. I turn from having to feed myself that way! I will exalt and honor God His closeness to me is a far better refuge, a greater strength and glory... (pause to let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) (And one of these...)...i...have boldness and confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12). Lord, I have become a marvel to many; for You are my strong refuge. (Psa. 71:7) The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him. (Psa. 28:7) It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. (Psa. 118:8) My soul shall make its boast in the Lord... (Psa. 34:2) Lord, I praise the closeness of all Your attributes. I praise Your name not mine. God is to us a God of deliverances... (Psa. 68:20) Lord, You are...my rock and my fortress. (Psa. 71:3)...God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16). And Lord, You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114)...the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name... (1 Sam. 12:22) I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust! (Psa. 91:2) It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. (Psa. 118:8)

114 Redefining Success: Being to the Praise of God s Glory, Not my Own the success I love is NOT to find pleasure in how well I protect myself from being embarrassed: I put on the humility of Christ and will thrill my heart by exalting the Lord with praise even if I have to do it quietly. I turn my eyes to look at You Lord not at myself......the success I love is NOT to feed myself with praise toward me. Lord, You are the God of all glory. Lord, I praise You for the closeness of Your attributes not mine. I praise Your power, Your beauty, Your awesomeness, Your kindness, Your wisdom, Your strength......the success I love is NOT to be more attractive in order to get what I need. Success is in exalting God. You have the beauty, the majesty, and the glory. Nothing on earth will ever comes close. I love knowing that my praise honors You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT to push myself to be something that others want to pursue: Lord, only You are worthy of my pursuit... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT to achieve the praise of people in order to be O.K.. It is God that I love. I rest into enjoying the touch of Your approval Lord......the success I love is NOT in loving how well I measure up to the people around me: it is far better to thrill myself by exalting God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT to delight in what people think about me. My delight is the closeness of God. I love that by trusting I am in the throne room the Kingdom of God is here. My eyes are on You Lord and I am trusting You to work through me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i turn my soul away from having to find reasons for praising myself. I don t have to feed myself that way! I will exalt and honor God He is a far better refuge, a greater strength and glory... (pause to let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) (And one of these...)...worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh, (Phil. 3:3) to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory. (Eph. 1:12); You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV); You are my King and my God... (Psa. 44:4 NIV); Heart hear this: He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21) For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly. (Psa. 84:11) I will be glad...in You...O most High. (Psa. 9:2)...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8)...I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all the gods. (Psa. 135:5) Lord,...You...are...my glory... (Psa. 3:3 TAB) Success comes from God because...from Me comes your fruit (Hosea 14:8). The success I long for comes by my receiving the shine of God s face upon me, the Lord make His face shine on you, and be gracious to you (Num. 6:24-26). And so,...as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until He is gracious to us (Psa. 123:2).

115 Redefining Success: Being to the Praise of God s Glory, Not my Own the success I love is NOT in the joy of exalting myself with subtle forms of internal praise. Success is depending on God and exalting Him. I set my heart to enjoy that God is honored by my praise and by my dependance on Him. My God is the commander of the armies of heaven and it is heaven that rules......the success I love is NOT to love having other people want to be like me: I will love the Lord and thrill myself to exalt Him by praise... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT to enjoy dominating people in order to achieve: My eyes are on You Lord. I will trust You to bear fruit through me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT to drink from respect other people have for me: I can exalt God in spiritual realms even when nobody here sees. Because the scriptures say it, I am believing that I am exalting God before an audience of angels, saints who have died before me, and before demonic rulers and authorities......the success I love is NOT to keep talking until they think I am important: I can significantly exalt God by loving His presence and praise... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT in finding evidence that my words have influence: It is God s word that has power. Success is in exalting You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT to push myself to be more impressive when others around me are competing: Lord, Your glory is greater... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i grab my soul and I turn it from exalting myself. Lord, I turn and give You praise I give You a sacrifice of praise that normally goes back toward me. You are the Lord not me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) (And one of these...) You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV) The Lord is my strength...and I will praise Him... (Exo. 15:2) Heart hear this: He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21) I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust! (Psa. 91:2) I set my heart to live, to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory. (Eph. 1:12) My soul shall make its boast in the Lord... (Psa. 34:2) Some boast in chariots and some in horses, But we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God. (Psa. 20:7) Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary... (Psa. 150:1)...The Lord is my God. (Zech.. 13:9)...Ascribe greatness to our God! (Deut. 32:3)...you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. (Psa. 86:15 NIV) Heart hear this: He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21)...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8) The Lord s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. (Lam. 3:22)

116 Redefining Success: Being to the Praise of God s Glory, Not my Own the success I love is NOT in my having to keep talking until I sense their approval of me. My honor and praise comes from God (Rom. 2:29; 1 Sam. 2:30; Jer. 13:11)......the success I love is NOT to exalt myself with evidence of my being right: I love the closeness of God s righteousness. I love that You told us to seek Your righteousness (Matt. 6:33). You also commanded us to let righteousness roll down like an ever-flowing stream (Amos 5:24). I set my affections to keep doing that Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the success I love is NOT in my having religious status where people are impressed with my spirituality. It is the glory of God that I love. I set my affections on You Lord. I love Your closeness......the success I love is NOT in quenching my thirst with what I earn: the Lord is the adequate God. He is worthy of my praise. I rest into receiving the touch of Your adequacy Lord... I don't have to believe the lies of the enemy, to get what I need by my having to achieve the glory of God. I denounce these things! Lord, You are my God rebuke any enemy pushing me, I pray. And Lord, I ask that with Your authority and power You would command the forces of evil to leave me alone and to never come back...(pause to let yourself believe that He is doing it)......i turn from living to the praise of my glory. The Lord is God. His presence given to me freely is a far better refuge, a better strength, a greater glory than the little gods of this world. Lord, I praise You... (pause to let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)... (Your name), I love that I can receive from the radiance of God like a sponge. I CAN draw near to God and my need is so great, that the more I love and enjoy being secure and strong in God s presence, the more it helps motivate me to keep the drinking straw of my inner being, pointed toward the closeness of Lord and His kingdom 24 hours-a-day. (pause to let your heart hear, believe, and love the God and the closeness of His kingdom all around!) (And one of these...) Success comes from God because...from Me comes your fruit (Hosea 14:8). The success I long for comes by my receiving the shine of God s face upon me, the Lord make His face shine on you, and be gracious to you (Num. 6:24-26). And so,...as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until He is gracious to us (Psa. 123:2). When I draw near to God, He draws near by bringing heaven around me here. And, my God is the commander of the armies of heaven! It is heaven that rules... You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114) The Lord is my strength...and I will praise Him... (Exo. 15:2)...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8) God is to us a God of deliverances... (Psa. 68:20) My soul shall make its boast in the Lord... (Psa. 34:2) I will be glad...in You...O most High. (Psa. 9:2)...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8)...I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all the gods. (Psa. 135:5) Lord,...You...are...my glory... (Psa. 3:3 TAB)

117 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Thrill and Pleasure 117 Barry Hall pleasure is not to come to the place where I think that I deserve Your presence God. Lord, I love that it is by my faith in the truth of Your word and Your grace that You draw near to me. You DO give me Yourself! And, I love that You don t hold back... (pause to let yourself feel confident and be reassured!)...the pleasure I long for is not from the twisted glory there is in sin there is far more glory in being near and in experiencing You God. Lord God of all glory and life, it is Your presence close to me that is my thrill and my pleasure... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...the pleasure I need most is not to change my earthly circumstances I turn to God because He is my thrill and my pleasure. Lord, I love Your grace to draw near to me and soothe me when things aren t going well... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...the pleasure I love is not the evidence I find of my being strong the nearness God is my strength and my pleasure. Lord God, I love the touch of Your strength. I love Your grace and love that draws You to want to be near to me. I rest in You... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the pleasure I need is not from evidence of my human adequacy the closeness of God is my adequacy. Lord, I love Your grace to draw near so that I can depend on You as my God. I rest into letting You touch me with Your adequacy... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...i turn away from earthly sources as my greatest thrill and pleasure. Lord, I love the awesome thrill and pleasure of standing right here before You. I welcome the rush of Your LIVING presence, Your LIVING power, and Your LIVING love into and all around me... (pause to feel courage by it!)...heart hear this: Delight yourself in the Lord... (Psa. 37:4). I turn my heart to You God! The presence of the God is my pleasure. I set my heart to find the thrill I need in enjoying God with me here:...great is your love toward me... (Psa. 86:13 NIV)....I am making God my treasure: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Mat. 6:21). God as my treasure is what I want. I grab my soul and I turn my affections from....heart hear this: He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21). My soul will love the Lord and I turn away from loving earthly things. I take pleasure in You God, and heart hear this,...the Lord takes pleasure in His people... (Psa. 149:4)....I am making God my delight and my thrill:...the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance...of the river of Your delights. (Psa. 36:7,8). I turn my heart to love Your presence God! O Lord, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells. (Psa. 26:8)...I am making God my greatest love. I love You, O Lord... (Psa. 18:1). And, when God draws near to me, He brings heaven with Him. Angels are here. It is heaven that rules......heart hear this and find the delight that you need by enjoying that Splendor and majesty are before Him, strength and beauty are in His sanctuary (Psa. 96:6). I am making it my greatest love to be close to God and to thrill myself with His splendor and majesty. Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power... (Rev. 4:11). I turn my heart to love giving praise toward God and not toward myself.

118 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Thrill and Pleasure the pleasure I love is not from the power I feel from being over other people God is my thrill and my pleasure. Lord, I love that it is from Your sanctuary that You give strength and power to the people (Psa. 68:35)... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...the pleasure I long for most will never come from daydreams of what I would say to. God will lead me and give me what I need to say. God is my glory I turn to You......the pleasure I need is not from forcing circumstances and people to cooperate with my plans for achievement. My glory is to let God work through me as He chooses......the pleasure I need most is not from making comparisons of my status to that of other people. The presence of God is my thrill and my pleasure. I love that I can exalt and honor God by depending on Him to quench my thirst... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...the pleasure I long for will never come from sexual sin or lust. The presence of God is my thrill and my pleasure. It is God s glory, strength, and His beauty touching me that I love far more......i turn away from earthly sources as my greatest thrill and pleasure. It is the rush of God s presence around me that I love. The closeness of God my greatest joy because doing anything else is evil......rather than loving, I am setting my heart to love You God. Heart don t be afraid:...the Lord loves His people... (2 Chron. 2:11). I am determined to rest in the truth about God to love Him and to let God love me back......great is your love toward me... (Psa. 86:13 NIV)....heart hear this: Delight yourself in the Lord... (Psa. 37:4). I set my heart to find delight and pleasure in loving You God......I repent of wanting as my treasure. I am declaring to my heart that God is my treasure because...where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Mat. 6:21). It is the presence of God that I love! You are my treasure Lord....I am setting my heart to praise God rather than myself: Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary... (Psa. 150:1)... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear it and rejoice. (Psa. 34:2)......rather than praise toward me about I am telling my heart that praising God is far better: The Lord is my strength...and I will praise Him... (Exo. 15:2)....Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. (Rev. 4:8); You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV)...I am determined that my heart will find the thrill and pleasure that I need in God:...take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God (Jos. 23:11)....heart hear this:...you are to cling to the Lord your God... (Jos. 23:8). I am stopping right now and am trusting that I am taking hold of God....I am confident and I am secure because...the Lord takes pleasure in His people... (Psa. 149:4). I love You, O Lord... (Psa. 18:1)... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)

119 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Thrill and Pleasure my greatest thrill and pleasure is not to compare myself to other people and find that I am better than they. Lord, I grab my soul and turn away from having to feed myself by comparisons. I love that receiving from You is so much easier... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...the pleasure I want most will never come from my getting more toys only the Lord will satisfy. I love that I can so freely turn to You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the pleasure I need will never come from earthly possessions, a house, a car,. Lord, I love that Your grace to draw near to me. I can trust You to lavish Your presence on me because You want to be God to me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...the pleasure I need is not to feed myself with how I appear to others. Instead, I am trusting that I am before the Lord in all His glory and that having His glory touching me is a far greater pleasure......the pleasure I love most is not to look at friends as evidence of my being worthy. God is my glory it is not the glory I receive from people. Lord, I love that I can receive Your presence without having to earn a sense of being worthy... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!) I don't have to believe the lies of the enemy that I have to get the thrill and pleasure I need apart from drinking Your presence. Lord, You are my God. I pray that You would rebuke any enemy pushing me to delight myself in earthly things. I denounce these things! And Lord, with Your authority and power I ask that you would command evil to leave me alone and to never come back...(pause to let yourself believe that He is doing it)......i turn away from earthly sources as my greatest thrill and pleasure. Lord, I love the awesome thrill and pleasure of standing right here before You. I welcome the rush of Your presence upon me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...i am training myself to Delight yourself in the Lord... (Psa. 37:4); making God my delight and treasure helps me to turn from sin because...where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Mat. 6:21). May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you. (Psa. 33:22 NIV). You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. (Deut. 6:5);...cling to Him. (Deut. 13:4). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) 'For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and...of Judah cling to Me,' declares the Lord, 'that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen.' (Jer. 13:11). (pause to believe and love the God who is close!) Splendor and majesty are before Him, Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. (Psa. 96:6)...Around God is awesome majesty. (Job 37:22) How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! O Lord, they walk in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all the day, and by Your righteousness they are exalted. For You are the glory of their strength...for our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel. (Psa. 89:15-18);...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8) (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)

120 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Thrill and Pleasure the pleasure I need most is not from having acceptance and approval from people. The Lord is the acceptance I love. By my salvation I have God s acceptance by my faith, I have His pleasure......the pleasure I long for is not to feed myself with how great I might think my personality is. God is my thrill and my pleasure. I love knowing that my praise exalts God before an on-looking audience of angels, saints in heaven, and demonic rulers and authorities......the pleasure I long for most is not to feed myself with my own human intelligence. The understanding of God is greater. Lord, I lift my hands up to Your word (Psa. 119:48). I wait expectantly for You to speak......the pleasure I need is not from feeding myself with how good I might think I am. The nearness of God is my God His presence is my pleasure... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...the thrill and pleasure I long for most is not from. God s presence is my pleasure. I love that I don t have to deserve your willingness to draw near......the pleasure I long for most is not from my sophistication and being above other people. It is the Lord who is God not me... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...the pleasure I need is not from security provided by earthly things or people. God is my security and my pleasure... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...i turn away from earthly sources as my greatest thrill and pleasure. Lord, I love the awesome thrill and pleasure of standing right here before You. I welcome the rush of Your presence upon me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)......god said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16). Heart hear this: Delight yourself in the Lord... (Psa. 37:4).. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Mat. 6:21) My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear it and rejoice. (Psa. 34:2)......take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God. (Jos. 23:11)...you are to cling to the Lord your God... (Jos. 23:8); I love You, O Lord... (Psa. 18:1)... Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created. (Rev. 4:11). Splendor and majesty are before Him, Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. (Psa. 96:6)...Around God is awesome majesty. (Job 37:22)...My soul clings to You... (Psa. 63:8). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory! And, pause to love Him!)...the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you. (Deut. 23:5);...He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. (Zeph. 3:17 NIV). The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart exults, and with my song I shall thank Him. (Psa. 28:7) (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; It shall exult in His salvation. (Psa. 35:9)

121 Believing and Enjoying God as Our Thrill and Pleasure the pleasure I long for will never come from how much I get done today it is better to drink like a branch during my activities and let God work through me. I love exalting You Lord......the pleasure I long for most will never come from thinking back over how well I protected myself it is God who is my thrill and my pleasure. Lord, I love Your grace to draw near to me and be my protection......the pleasure I love is not from my always being right. The nearness of God is my good He alone is my righteousness. I rest into letting You touch me with Your righteousness......the thrill and pleasure I long for most will never come from what I could eat. Lord, I love that I can feed myself with You... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...the pleasure I love most is not from how well I make people laugh. I love that my faith causes God to feel pleasure. It thrills my heart to know that my praises make the Holy Spirit enjoy being with me in power, love, compassion... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...the pleasure I long for most is not from my having people who are impressed with me. Lord God, I delight that You take pleasure in Your people and that includes me......i set my heart to find the thrill I need by standing before the Lord, enjoying that He is here in all His glory:...around God is awesome majesty (Job 37:22). I set my affections on You God and it thrills my heart that...the Lord loves His people... (2 Chron. 2:11). I am setting my heart to love You God and I am determining to let you love me back. (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear it and rejoice. (Psa. 34:2)... Heart hear this and do it:...take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God (Jos. 23:11);...you are to cling to the Lord your God... (Jos. 23:8)....heart hear this: it is God that I want because...love is from God... (1 John 4:7);...God is love, and the one who abides in love, abides in God and God abides in him. (1 John 4:16)....abide in [His] love. (John 15:9); keep yourselves in the love of God... (Jude 1:21). The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield...my salvation, my stronghold. (Psa. 18:2)... Lord, You are my hiding place... (Psa. 32:7) he who takes refuge in Me...will possess My holy mountain. (Isa. 57:13) To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul. O my God, in You I trust... (Psa. 25:1,2)...You are my God...My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You...Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory...my soul is satisfied... (Psa. 63:1,2,5)....the Lord takes pleasure in His people... (Psa. 149:4). To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul. O my God, in You I trust... (Psa. 25:1,2); I will be glad...in You...O most High. (Psa. 9:2). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. (Rev. 4:8). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)

122 Enjoying God as Our Boast 122 Barry Hall delight in the truth that my glory is not to exalt myself by trying to make God submit to my demands. I love praising You Lord... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that my glory is not to boast in myself instead of me, I will boast in God. Oh, how I love You Lord. I set my eyes and my ears on You Lord... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...heart, delight in the truth that my glory is not to boast in my being God; I don't have to be the sovereign I AM. God is who I love to praise... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that my glory is not to boast in being king in order to be Ok. I love and praise You Lord. I submit to the truth that it is right for me to love and believe that I am in the throne room and the You Lord are walking with me here my eyes are on You... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...heart, delight in the truth that my glory is not to exalt myself by drinking from the glory of (example of something you drink from). God is my first love... (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!)...heart, delight in the truth that it is right to boast in God. I delight to grab my soul and turn it away from letting the boasting and praise come back toward myself. The Lord is God not me. I praise God for the glory of His attributes not mine. My eyes are on You God... (pause to believe it)... (Your name), listen and let yourself love the presence of God as your boast! My soul shall make its boast in the Lord... (Psa. 34:2). (pause to hear and believe it) How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! O Lord, they walk in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all the day, and by Your righteousness they are exalted. For You are the glory of their strength...for our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel. (Psa. 89:15-18). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) God has promised with an...everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants... (Gen. 17:7; and also Gal. 3:29)....I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all the gods. (Psa. 135:5)... You are my God...I exalt you. (Psa. 118:28 NIV)...the nations will bless themselves in Him, and in Him they will glory. (Jer. 4:2)....worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh, (Phil. 3:3). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord gives grace and glory... (Psa. 84:11)... to the end that we...would be to the praise of His glory. (Eph. 1:12). (pause to hear and believe it)...the Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3:8)... God is to us a God of deliverances... (Psa. 68:20). (pause to hear and believe it) The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet... (Rom. 16:20). (pause to hear and believe it) You know of Jesus...God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and...he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. (Acts 10:38)

123 Enjoying God as Our Boast (Your name), I delight that I don't have to glory in being above other people who......don't achieve......don't measure up......don't have health... (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!) (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!) (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!)...are struggling with sin and failed... (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!)...are not athletic enough......are not friendly enough......can t recognize the truth.. (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!) (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!) (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!)...don't think... (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!)...don t... (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!)...who don't know and believe the right things... (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!)...i repent and turn from directing internal praise toward me. The Lord is God. I praise You who are close to me I praise Your power, Your love, Your wisdom, Your goodness, Your glory, Your strength, Your beauty. And by faith I am trusting that my eyes are looking at Your presence close and all around me here... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)... (Your name), listen and let yourself love the presence of God as your protection! Some boast in chariots, and some in horses; but we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God. (Psa. 20:7)... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) You are my King and my God... (Psa. 44:4 NIV). (pause to believe and love the God who is close!)...let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God... (Heb. 13:15); He is your praise... (Deut. 10:21). Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face continually. (1 Chron. 16:11). (pause to hear and believe it) O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary...god...gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God! (Psa. 68:35). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!) Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary... (Psa. 150:1). (pause to hear and believe it) My soul shall make its boast in the Lord... (Psa. 34:2). The Lord is my strength...and I will praise Him... (Exo. 15:2). (pause to hear and believe it) By entering to stand before the Lord of hosts, I...have made the Lord...the Most High,...[my] dwelling place. (Psa. 91:9). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...o Lord God, You are my confidence... (Psa. 71:5). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!) My...confidence...is...through Christ before God...our competence comes from God (2 Cor. 3:4,5 NIV). My...praise is not from men, but from God. (Rom. 2:29)....Ascribe greatness to our God! (Deut. 32:3). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

124 Enjoying God as Our Boast (Your name), I delight that I don't have to glory in being above other people who......are not impressive... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...don't have friends... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...who don't have the right things... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...are not spiritual enough... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)... (Your name), listen to what you are saying and let yourself believe and love the truth!...my glory is not to exalt myself by trying to make God submit to my demands......i can keep redirecting the praise toward God, even when they like my jokes. I set my eyes to keep looking at You Lord not on them or on myself... (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...i am free to show appreciation when someone compliments me. Inside I will keep the flow of praise going toward God... (pause to be thankful and love it as the truth!)...i repent and turn from directing internal praise toward me. The Lord is God. So Lord, I praise Your power, Your love, Your wisdom, Your goodness, Your glory, Your strength, Your beauty. I boast in You. My eyes are on Your power and beauty close to me here Lord... (pause to believe it)... (Your name), listen and let yourself love the presence of God as your protection! But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness... (Mat. 6:33)....righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne. (Psa. 97:2). Then he showed me a river of the water of life...coming from the throne of God... (Rev. 22:1). But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream (Amo. 5:24). Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; lovingkindness and truth go before You. (Psa. 89:14). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...it is Heaven that rules. (Dan. 4:26). And, by drawing near I can welcome the kingdom of God here: Draw near to God and He will draw near to you... (James 4:8). (pause to be thankful and love the God who is close!)...[i] have boldness and confident access through faith in Him (Eph. 3:12). for through Him we...have our access in one Spirit to the Father. (Eph. 2:18; see also Heb. 4). My soul shall make its boast in the Lord... (Psa. 34:2). (pause to believe and love the God who is close!)...i know that the Lord is great, And that our Lord is above all the gods. (Psa. 135:5)... God has promised with an...everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants... (Gen. 17:7; and also Gal. 3:29)....God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2Cor 6:16). The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart exults, and with my song I shall thank Him. (Psa. 28:7).;...The Lord is my God. (Zech.. 13:9). (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)

125 Turning from Demonic Pressure to Avoid and Believe Lies About God 125 (Security and protection from God rather than self-protection by staying away) Barry Hall don t have to agree with demonic pressure to doubt whether God s promises apply to me they do apply to me... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i don t have to agree with demonic pressure to pride myself because of the presence of God that only weakens me for spiritual battle. I enter and draw near to God and the God who is before me here is the commander of all the angels of heaven... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i don t have to agree with demonic pressure to live in dullness or apathy. An river of the Holy Spirit is not too much for me to expect I love that I can quench my thirst with God. I have full access into the radiance shining from God... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...i don t have to agree to close up and avoid receiving the Holy Spirit because of pressure to believe demonic lies that I need to do something to deserve God s presence somehow......i don t have to agree with demonic pressure to believe lies that I should feel shame and avoid receiving the Holy Spirit from the fountain of God the power of the washing from God burns away my shame......i don t have to agree with pressure to believe lies that evil is good God is good. It is evil that s evil. And, I don t have to agree with demonic pressure to believe lies that self-condemnation will help me somehow... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!) Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; (Rom. 8:33)....I don t have to agree with pressure to stay away from because of lies that God doesn t want me close God does want me to turn to Him and draw near. it is right and good for me to stand before the Lord of hosts and drink from Him... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...i don t have to avoid God because of pressure to believe lies about Him. I don t have to harden my heart when He speaks to me. It is right and good for me to trust that God is good, strong, loving, and kind......i don t have to agree to live within religious boundaries put on me by demonic pressure: it is right and good for me to stand before the Lord of hosts, praise Him, and welcome the presence of the Holy Spirit......because of the truth about God and the availability of the Holy Spirit, I don t have to agree with pressure to find refuge in despair because of spiritual intimidation from demons. The Lord is my God......I delight to turn away from agreeing with demonic pressure to hide from God because of intimidation or fear... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...it is the Lord who is God not the spiritual forces of evil. My God is a stronger fortress and a better refuge. I trust I am before the Lord and am putting on the armor of light (Rom. 13:12 and Psa. 27:1-8)......Though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident...for in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle... (Psa. 27:3 and 5) I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely. (Psa. 16:8,9)....The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3:8).

126 Turning from Demonic Pressure to Avoid and Believe Lies About God 126 (Security and protection coming from God rather than self-protection by staying away)...i don t have to agree with demonic pressure to harden my heart when I hear God s voice......i don t have to agree about cowering away from the throne room and from standing before God......because of the truth about God and my access to the throne room, I don t have to agree with deception and lies from the demonic intended to keep me away... (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)...because God is my God, I don t have to avoid praising Him because of pressure from the demonic. And, I don t have to agree to avoid the throne room of God because of deception from the enemy. When I draw near to God He draws near by bringing heaven with Him. Angels are here all around me and my God is the commander of all the angels of heaven......i don t have to agree with demonic pressure to enjoy criticizing other Christians......I don t have to believe lies from the enemy regarding my weakness: the God who is with me is strong......armed in the presence of the Lord... (Num. 32:32)...I don t have to agree with demonic pressure to stay away from God because of people who care about me think I am wrong... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i don t have to agree with demonic pressure find the security I need by staying away from God......I don t have to agree with demonic pressure to believe lies that sexual pursuits are better because of the thrill and pleasure of having intimate closeness with the Spirit of God who is beautiful, strong, and loves me greatly... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...i don t have to agree with demonic lies that I should avoid God because religious people make me feel ashamed... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i don t have to agree with the demonic pressure to avoid God because of criticism I receive from people I love... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...because of the truth about God, I don t have to agree with strong delusion to stay out of the throne room and avoid drinking the Holy Spirit like a sponge... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i don t have to agree with demonic pressure to avoid God because of accusation and gossip from other Christians... (pause to let yourself feel confidence because of the truth!)...it is the Lord who is God not the spiritual forces of evil. My God is a stronger fortress and a better refuge. I trust I am before the Lord and am putting on the armor of light (Rom. 13:12 and Psa. 27:1-8)......Though war arise against me, In spite of this I shall be confident...for in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle... (Psa. 27:3 and 5) I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely. (Psa. 16:8,9)....The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3:8).

127 Turning from Demonic Pressure to Avoid and Believe Lies About God 127 (Security and protection coming from God rather than self-protection by staying away)...i don t have to agree with demonic pressure to feed myself with praise because of God s presence......i delight to turn away from accepting demonic pressure that it is wrong somehow for me to praise God freely... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...i turn from agreeing to pride myself with the lie that I am above needing to praise God for some reason......i delight to turn away from accepting demonic pressure to avoid putting my hope in God......I don t have to agree with demonic pressure that it is wrong somehow to pray......i don t have to agree with demonic pressure to live in dullness or apathy I can quench my thirst with God... (let yourself feel confidence from the closeness of God s power and glory!)...i don t have to avoid reading and believing the Bible because of pressure from the demonic......i denounce and reject demonic pressure to put my hope in despair......because of the abundant availability of the Spirit of God, I don t have to agree with demonic pressure to feed myself with food as my best hope for thrill and pleasure......i denounce and reject demonic lies about their power because my God is a strong fortress His Light is a thick shield... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!)...i don t have to agree to avoid standing before the Lord because of threats of physical harm......i don t have to agree with demonic pressure to stay away from God when people I care about, make me feel bad... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)...i don t have to agree with demonic pressure to harden my heart when I hear God s voice......i don t have to believe the lies that push me to fear. I don t have to be afraid. You are my God! Holy and awesome God, I will fear You alone. Lord, rebuke any enemy pushing me to fear or dread. I denounce fear! I denounce any fear that is or was passed on to me by my parents. God, You are the Commander of the armies of heaven. And Lord, I ask that with Your authority and power You would command the forces of evil to leave me alone and to never come back...(pause to let yourself believe that He is doing it)......it is the Lord who is God not the spiritual forces of evil. My God is a stronger fortress and a better refuge of strong power... (pause to let yourself feel confidence and be reassured by God s presence!) I set my heart to trust that I am before the Lord here and that the armor of God is all around me because of the radiance that is all around me from Him. By this I...lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light (Rom. 13:12 )... (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!) Heart hear this and turn to face toward God! The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; Whom shall I dread? (Psa. 27:1)...The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3:8).

128 Heart-training Condensed! (Uses Diagrams) 128 Level 1: Oh God! I love who You are, and I turn from believing lies about You!... (Your name), God is good, it is evil that is evil....the Lord is good... (Psa. 135:3)....Holy is He. (Psa. 99:3). God is not a man, that He should lie... (Num. 23:19); He is the...god, who cannot lie... (Titus 1:2)....has He spoken, and will He not make it good? (Num. 23:19)....the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect (Rom. 12:2). Heart, believe in...the tender mercy of our God... (Luke 1:78). It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. (Psa. 118:8)....the Lord is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! (Psa. 34:8). God...has not despised...the afflicted; neither has He hidden His face from him... (Psa. 22:24)....My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped... (Psa. 28:7). The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble (Psa. 9:9 NIV). And,...God...comforts the depressed... (2 Cor. 7:6). He is...the Father of mercies and God of all comfort (2 Cor. 1:3).... (Your name), hear this! God s perfect love casts out my fears! (1 John 4:18). God s love for me is patient and kind! (1 Cor 13:4 RSV). God s love looks for ways of being constructive with me! (1 Cor. 13:5a Phillips);...He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness...afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness (Heb. 12:6,10,11). God s love for me is not irritable or touchy! (1 Cor 13:5 The Living Bible). God s love for me is not condemning in any way! (Rom. 8:1). God s love for me is not like a roaring lion that is seeking to devour me! (1 Peter 5:8). God knows everything about me, yet still, God deeply loves me I cannot escape it! (Psa. 139). God s love does not decrease when I fail! (1 Cor. 13:8; Romans 5:8; Romans 8:36-39). God s love for me does not increase when I succeed! (Eph. 3:17-19). God s love for me is good. God s love is good enough for me to trust! (Psa. 34:8; John 15:9). God wants me to stay surrounded by His love (John 15:9)....the Lord loves His people... (2 Chron 2:11)....great is your love toward me... (Psa. 86:13 NIV).... (Your name), let yourself hear and believe that...none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned (Psa. 34:22). It is safe for me to trust God because...those who know Your name will put their trust in You, for You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You (Psa. 9:10). IT IS WRITTEN that...he will not fail you... (Deut. 4:31). God says that...i will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you (Heb. 13:5). And,...the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name... (1 Sam. 12:22)....the Lord will not abandon His people, nor will He forsake [us, as] His inheritance. (Psa. 94:14). Lord, YOU are...the Shepherd and Guardian of [my soul]. (1 Peter 2:25)....the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect (Rom. 12:2). And, I submit into believing that these truths apply to me. My God is NOT... My God is not like other people. Heart let yourself hear and believe that my God is NOT (from the diagram)... (pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!).

129 Heart-training Condensed! (Uses Diagrams) 129 Level 2: Oh God! I love turning from idolatry of the heart! Barry Hall 2011 Directions: Read the statements over and over while trying to hear, believe, and enjoy what you are saying. Do NOT read these statements trying to judge whether you are doing these things or not. Just trust that God cleansing you inside and out while you are doing the heart-training. Joy and delight are your goal. Do NOT allow any condemnation or guilt as that will only shut you down inside and keep you away from God. Try not to fill in the blanks with more than 1 or 2 things from the list or the diagram. Move quickly with the statements, except for the pause at the end of the statement to give a little time to let it sink into your heart. The goal here is to get your heart to enjoy turning from faith in earthly things and to enjoy and trust the closeness of God s presence instead. Even though it is not natural to feel delight, if you are intentional about hearing this as truth and enjoying it, then it will become much easier to enjoy God as your God! Spiritual Assignment for this page: Learn to feel your inner being turning away from earthly sources. Keep at this, and that will happen. Thank the Lord for these things! Rest into faith and joy by submitting to the TRUTH about how wonderful it is that you don t have to feed yourself these ways! Eventually, you will find delight in turning away from earthly things. And that, will help you to take delight in the Lord and experience His presence. Think about God s presence being close and let yourself enjoy feeling the benefit in the statement. Heart-training statement (use this one together with the next statement above the diagram) Thank You Lord! And heart, DELIGHT that I do NOT have to get (from the Benefits List )... Benefits List (Benefits of receiving in order to meet our need / Symptoms of our need for the presence of God) my escape, what relieves stress... my boldness, what makes me special... my refuge, security, protection... my glory, beauty, attractiveness, impressiveness... what soothes, comforts, reassures... my courage, power, strength, honor... my righteousness, goodness, perfection... my significance, my audience, what gives meaning... my love, acceptance, support, help... my adequacy, what gives me authority, confidence... my protection, reason to NOT be afraid... my thrill, pleasure, excitement... my sense of well being, sense of belonging... my justification, peace, what validates me... my hope for provision and needs being met... my power for helping people, what convinces them......from (from the Diagram ). The Lord is my God; His presence close to me is what I need! Heart, DELIGHT in, and LOVE the presence of God! And, turn away from receiving by self-directed praise. Instead of earthly glory, I am trusting that I am close to God and am receiving His presence and kingdom HERE! Diagram (diagram of earthly sources we receive from)

130 Heart-training Condensed! (Uses Diagrams) 130 Spiritual Assignment for this page: Learn to feel your inner being turning away from earthly sources and turning toward the Lord. At the end of the statement, be intentional about stopping briefly to let yourself enjoy feeling secure and reassured because of the presence of God! Heart-training statement: Thank You Lord that I CAN turn away from finding the security and protection I need by (from the Diagram). Heart, I am turning to trust God as my security. It is the presence of God close and all around me that is my strong refuge, my security, protection, and what reassures me... (pause to let your heart enjoy it!) Diagram As Needed... (Your name), let yourself hear and believe that The eternal God is a dwelling place... (Deut. 33:27); God is my strong fortress... (2 Sam 22:33); The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? (Psa. 27:1); Lord You are...a refuge for me, a tower of strength...let me dwell in Your tent forever; let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings... (Psa. 61:3,4); Guard my soul...for I take refuge in You (Psa. 25:20); The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident...in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock (Psa. 27:1 and 3,4,5); Lord, You are my hiding place and my shield... (Psa. 119:114); I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken...my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely. (Psa. 16:8,9). And, I rest into believing that these truths apply to me.... (Your name), let yourself hear and believe that...none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned (Psa. 34:22). It is safe for me to trust God because...those who know Your name will put their trust in You, for You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You (Psa. 9:10). IT IS WRITTEN that...he will not fail you... (Deut. 4:31). God says that...i will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you (Heb. 13:5). And,...the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name... (1 Sam. 12:22)....the Lord will not abandon His people, nor will He forsake [us, as] His inheritance. (Psa. 94:14). Lord, YOU are...the Shepherd and Guardian of [my soul]. (1 Peter 2:25). And, I submit into believing that these truths apply to me.